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Ripa and Cooper
Excellent Awards
GLAADs emotionally-charged Media Awards honored those who best

represent and advocate for the LGBT community
by Rhuaridh Marr
OR KELLY RIPA, WINNING

GLAADs Excellence in Media
Award was kind of odd. In a
speech that brought thunderous applause to the Waldorf Astoria last
weekend, Ripa, host of ABCs Live! with
Kelly and Michael, told the audience that
her award was recognition that she simply [treats] people like people.
Its kind of odd, in a way, that I should
be given an award based on the fact that
Ive had the privilege of being surrounded
by, loved by and influenced by this community my entire life, she said. Or, quite
frankly, that I should be celebrated for
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treating people like people.

Indeed, Ripa, who executive produces
Logo TVs Secret Guide to Fabulous with
her husband Mark Consuelos, was honored to have been awarded for her years
of LGBT advocacy. Its the biggest thrill
of my life, she told Variety. Besides the
birth of my children, its the most important thing thats happened to me. Her
children have been raised in a household
not only accepting of gay people, but filled
with them, as well. CNN host Anderson
Cooper, a close friend of Ripas, presented
her the award, and she playfully teased
his good looks before praising the openly
gay newsman for the visibility he brings to
the LGBT community.
Because of people like you, there are
people out there that look up to you that
are able to be proud of who they are, she

said. On a personal note, I just want to
thank you and Benjamin [Coopers partner] for being such extraordinary friends,
exceptional friends. Youre such a fine
example for my family, my children in particular. I feel like my kids are better people
because they have you and Benjamin in
their lives. Seriously, I love you.
While Ripas win affirmed her status
as an LGBT ally, for MSNBCs Thomas
Roberts, winning GLAADs Vito Russo
Award for promoting LGBT equality
seemed a form of vindication for a daring
decision made nine years ago.
In 2006, Roberts who was working
for CNN at the time told the National
Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
convention in Miami that he was gay. It
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was an uneasy decision for a man unsure
whether his sexuality would impact his
career. At the time, he was cable news
only out gay anchor. Coming out wasnt
without its missteps and major learning
lessons, he said. But after every storm,
you can hope for a rainbow or in my
case, a colorful peacock.
It was a nod to Roberts position
at MSNBC, where he hosts Live with
Thomas Roberts. It is his weekly Out
There segment, however, that helped
secure his award. A roundup of all things
LGBT, Roberts has used Out There to
talk frankly about his own struggles with
growing up gay, including contemplating
suicide, something he referenced during
an emotional speech.
When I was growing up, I was burdened with the feelings of thinking that I
was less than because I knew I was gay,
he said. I was hopeless and because of
a culmination of events surrounding my
sexuality at the age of 15, I attempted to
take my life. But my sister saved my life.
People like me were considered immoral
at best, a joke and the option of being out
meant being an outcast. Sadly, thats how
my mind worked then.
Unfortunately, for Kristene Chapa, it
wasnt suicide that affected her life, but
the actions of a hateful individual. In
2012, Chapa and her girlfriend, Mollie
Olgin, were shot execution-style in a park
in southern Texas. While Chapa survived,
Olgin was pronounced dead at the scene.

When Chapa took to the stage Saturday
night at GLAADs 26th annual Media
Awards, she received a standing ovation
the first of many during her speech.
For three years, Chapa has endured
physical and occupational therapy. She
lost function in her left arm, but is slowly
working to regain it, and recovered from
a traumatic head injury. Shes working
with a writer to tell her story and has
become a beacon of resilience in the
face of extreme hate for the LGBT community. Chapa, however, only wants for
one thing.
I just wish Mollie was here, she
said. She would have loved to see all of
this, all the support from everyone.
However, Chapa has been able to
draw some positives from her experience, stating that the shooting [is] a
tragedy, but it also brings a lot of people
together, and shows all the great people
out there thats willing to help and have
good hearts. Its hard to be gay in south
Texas, but I believe that God loves everybody, no matter if youre gay or straight.
In between emotional speeches and
a moving cover of Miley Cyrus The
Climb by out country star Ty Herndon,
GLAAD presented numerous honours
to various news outlets, publications
and journalists for their contributions to
LGBT representation in media.
John Olivers fledgling HBO show Last
Week Tonight with John Oliver scored a

win for Outstanding Talk Show Episode,
thanks to an incredible interview with
Pepe Julian Onziema, a Ugandan gay
rights activist who detailed the various
atrocities and hardships faced by the
countrys LGBT population. MSNBC
collected an award for TV journalism
thanks to its Fired for Being Gay? segment. TIMEs landmark cover story The
Transgender Tipping Point, featuring
transgender actress Laverne Cox, won
for Outstanding Magazine article, while
Sports Illustrated won for overall magazine coverage, with out athletes Michael
Sam and Jason Collins accepting the
award. Lilting, a film about a mother and
her sons lover as they each deal with
the sons death, won for Outstanding
Limited Release (in our four-star review
we called it a deeply moving examination of being lost in translation).
While GLAADs awards have been
criticized as unnecessary, they still serve
as an important reminder of how far
journalism and media have come in representing LGBT people and, indeed, of
how far we have come as a community.
The LGBT community has led the
way in treating people like people, Ripa
stated. Oftentimes, those who are the
most discriminated against are the most
empathetic and the most inclusive. Quite
frankly, I should be giving this award to
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Texas Lawmakers Push Anti-Marriage

Equality Measures
Legislators seek to undercut any pro-marriage equality advances, including fining county
clerks who marry same-sex couples
by John Riley
HE TEXAS SENATE ON
Monday approved a measure
protecting anyone who refuses to accommodate same-sex
marriage from the threat of legal action.
The bill is part of a trio of measures aimed
at undercutting any favorable decisions
that would legalize or seek to legitimize
same-sex marriages in the Lone Star
State.
Republican legislators have been fervent in their defense of the states 2005
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ment banning the recognition of same-sex

marriages or any legal relationship that
emulates a marriage. They hope to block,
by any means possible, any attempts to
bring marriage equality to the Lone Star
State, even if the U.S. Supreme Court
issues a sweeping decision in favor of it.
The measures introduced by the
House and Senate imitate laws introduced in other states, such as Indiana and
Arkansas, known as Religious Freedom
Restoration Acts, or RFRAs. RFRAs are
intended to allow people who object to
certain actions that violate their religious
conscience, from taking part in or aiding
the commission of such actions. In the
case of same-sex marriage, it allows indi-
viduals and businesses to refuse to assist

in the procurement of goods or services to
be used at a same-sex wedding ceremony
or reception.
Bill SB 2065 protects a religious organization, an organization supervised or
controlled by or in connection with a
religious organization, an employee of a
religious organization, or clergy or minister from having to solemnize a marriage. The bill goes further, exempting
those parties from threat of legal action
by allowing them to refuse to provide services, accommodations, facilities, goods
or other privileges if the union in question violates a persons sincerely held
religious belief. The measure also pro-
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hibits the state or local counties or cities
from penalizing or withholding benefits
or privileges such as tax exemptions,
government contracts, grants or licenses,
from organizations or individuals who
refuse to provide services to same-sex
couples.
Democrats tried to introduce two
amendments to the bill, both of which
were rejected. The first would have specified that a minister could only refuse
to solemnize or provide services to a
same-sex wedding when acting in an
official capacity as a minister, rather than
as an agent of the state, such as a county
clerk. The second amendment would
have required businesses that reserve the
right of refusal to provide services to post
notice of that refusal, and the accompanying religious objection, in their place
of business and on their website. The
amendment would have also required
that notice to specifically state to whom
they are refusing service.
All but one Democrat voted for the
first amendment, while all 11 Democrats
in the chamber voted for the second. The
final bill passed 21-10, with Democrat
Eddie Lucio, Jr. (D-Brownsville) voting
with the Republicans.
An identical bill, HB 3567, has
been introduced in the House of
Representatives, passing its second reading on Tuesday. The bill was scheduled
to be voted after press time but is widely
expected to pass, as did its Senate counterpart.
The third measure in the trio, HB
4105, is the most far-reaching and by far
the most defiant, as it prevents the recognition of same-sex marriages even in the
case of the Supreme Court issuing a decision legalizing marriage equality, penalizing those county clerks who decide to
move forward with same-sex marriages.
The so-called Preservation of
Sovereignty and Marriage Act, as written, says it seeks to affirm that the
definition and regulation of marriage is
within the sole authority and realm of
the separate states and the people within
those states. In practice, the bill prohibits the state or any political subdivision
from using funds to issue, enforce, or recognize a marriage license or declaration
of an informal marriage for a same-sex
couple. It also prevents state employees
or officials from issuing licenses, or from
using funds to enforce any order requiring the issuance or recognition of a samesex union. The last point is widely seen
as an attempt to undermine what some
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believe may end up being a decision in

favor of the right of same-sex couples to
marry.
This end-run play to subvert a
Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, to which the State of Texas would
be constitutionally bound, makes Texas
a laughingstock and flies in the face of
Texas values, Teri Burke, the executive
director of the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) of Texas, said in a statement reacting to the bills introduction.
Reasonable Texas legislators need to
step forward and stop this shameful
attack on LGBT Texans.
But another provision in the bill
viewed by many as the most pernicious
and mean-spirited goes after individual county clerks who issue licenses
or recognize same-sex marriages. Any
document associated with a union other
than a union between one man and one
woman must be provided to the attorney general. If a marriage license fee was
collected for a same-sex union, the county clerk must pay $30 to the state comptroller for each occurrence. An informal
declaration of marriage for a same-sex
union would set a county clerk back
$12.50 for each occurrence. The money
collected from the penalties enforced on
the county clerks is to be deposited into
the states general revenue fund.
The bill also states that if it takes
effect before June 1, it not only applies to
same-sex marriages going forward, but
to other same-sex marriages that were

previously licensed, such as those permitted in Travis County, which includes
the state capital of Austin, beginning in
February of this year.
Other LGBT rights advocates decried
HB 4105, in particular, as out-of-touch
and motivated by animus.
This bill has nothing to do with
Texas values and has everything to do
with enshrining discrimination into state
law, said Marty Rouse, national field
director for the Human Rights Campaign
(HRC). At a moment when people across
this state and across this country are
calling for people to be treated fairly,
the Texas Legislature must not send this
state backwards with dangerous and hostile Indiana-style legislation.
Chuck Smith, the executive director
of Equality Texas, also weighed in.
Extremist lawmakers in Texas are
trying to preserve the right to discriminate no matter what the Supreme Court
might say about marriage, Smith said.
Passing this bill would make Texas look
intolerant and unwelcoming and would
harm the state. It must be rejected.
If, as expected, all three bills receive
two-thirds support in each chamber
or 100 votes in the House and 21 in the
Senate they take effect immediately, as
allowed by the Texas Constitution. If the
bills do not meet the two-thirds threshold in either chamber, they wont take
effect until Sept. 1. l
Iges Choice
Hawaiis governor must decide whether to approve trans birth

certificate bill that eliminates surgical requirement
by John Riley
AWAII HAS SIMPLIFIED

the process by which transgender and intersex individuals may obtain a new,
clean version of their birth certificate.
The Hawaii Legislature last Wednesday
approved the measure, sending it to the
desk of Gov. David Ige (D) for his signature.
The bill, HB 631, amends a statute
governing the issuance of new birth certificates, eliminating a requirement that
an individual undergo surgical treatment
for gender dysphoria and replacing it

with a statement from a licensed medical provider attesting that the person has
undergone treatment appropriate for a
gender transition. The legislation also
requires that amended birth certificates
not contain any marks indicating they
were amended, and that the original birth
certificate with the incorrect gender be
sealed and filed away, only to be reopened
either by a court order or at the request
of the individual to whom the certificate
applies.
Six other states California, Oregon,
New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and
Washington state, as well as the jurisdictions of the District of Columbia and New
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Ige
York City, which issues its own birth

certificates have either passed similar
legislation or enacted department-level
regulations that eliminate the surgical
requirement for changing ones birth certificate. A similar bill passed the Maryland
General Assembly and is awaiting Gov.
Larry Hogans (R) signature, while a
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measure in Colorado was defeated and

a third measure, in Connecticut, is still
working its way through the legislature.
Arli Christian, policy counsel for
the National Center for Transgender
Equality (NCTE) who works with various state-level advocates to modernize
name change laws and regulations gov-
erning the procurement of identity documents that correctly reflect ones gender identity, said that her organization
worked closely with state-level organizations, including a birth certificate modernization working group. Together, they
proposed language that would eliminate
the surgical requirements, which can be
costly and burdensome, and allow transgender people to retain their privacy
rather than having to prove it before
a judge.
Putting the process into the hands of
patients and physicians is more appropriate, Christian said of the change. She
recommended that Ige sign the bill into
law, something she expects him to do as a
result of conversations had with on-theground activists.
Although there was a proposed
amendment to the bill that sought to
require transgender individuals to obtain
a court order before changing their birth
certificates, the state-level groups and
NCTE worked with the state attorney
generals office to explain why the court
order requirement posed an undue burden to those seeking to change their birth
certificates. Of the other states that have
eliminated the surgical requirement, only
Oregon currently requires a court order
before changing ones gender on a birth
certificate.
This is a particularly important process to make sure transgender individuals have access to identity documents and
reduce the discrimination that transgender individuals may face, Christian said.
The National LGBTQ Task Force
issued its own statement celebrating the
bills passage, noting that 90 percent of
transgender people have experienced
discrimination, harassment or mistreatment.
For transgender people who dont
have identification that truly corresponds
to their gender identity, applying for a
job, registering for school, and checking into a hotel while on vacation can be
scary, embarrassing, and an impossible
process, Kylar Broadus, the director of
the Task Forces Transgender Civil Rights
Project, said. Hawaii legislatures removal of the unnecessary and expensive surgery requirement was very important and
the right thing to do. A medical procedure doesnt determine ones gender
identity. This bill continues the momentum around the globe to allow transgender people to live their lives openly and
authentically. We urge Governor Ige to
sign this measure into law. l
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the D.C.-area LGBT community, from alternative social events to
volunteer opportunities. Event information should be sent by email to
calendar@MetroWeekly.com. Deadline for inclusion is noon
of the Friday before Thursdays publication. Questions about
the calendar may be directed to the Metro Weekly office at
202-638-6830 or the calendar email address.
REEL AFFIRMATIONS screens Eat with Me at the
Human Rights Campaign headquarters. 7-11 p.m.

1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW. For more information,
visit reelaffirmations.org.
WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETYs mobile

animal adoption vehicle, Adopt Force 1, hosts
Capital Harvest on the Plaza. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Plaza at the Ronald Reagan
Building and International Trade Center, 1300
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. For more information, visit
washhumane.org/adopt.
WEEKLY EVENTS
ANDROMEDA TRANSCULTURAL HEALTH
THURSDAY, MAY 14
BURGUNDY CRESCENT, a gay volunteer
organization, volunteers today for Food & Friends.

To participate, burgundycrescent.org.
COP CAKES FOR A CAUSE 5, a fundraiser

benefiting the Concerns of Police Survivors, as
part of LGBT Fallen Heroes Week, takes place at
The Brixton. 901 U St. NW. For more information,
contact Charger Stone, charger@dcbearcrue.com.
LAMBDA SQUARES presents Shall We Dance?
at National City Christian Church. 7:30-8:30 p.m.
5 Thomas Circle NW. For more information, visit
dclambdasquares.org.
Join METRO DC PFLAGS Cocktail Party. 6-9 p.m.

Vida Penthouse, 1602 U Street NW. pflagdc.org/
event/penthouse/
MISSION: ENGAGE, D.C.s inaugural LGBT

conference for LGBT veterans, military
servicemembers and families, takes place for
three days at the Reeves Center. Speakers and
presentations cover topics like he ban on trans
service, LGBT military families, PTS and mental
health issues. Thursday, May 14 at 12 p.m.Saturday, May 16 at 8 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW. To
register, missionengage.eventbrite.com. For more
information, contact Eric Perez, 202-682-2245 or
eric.perez@thedccenter.org.
RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT hosts an LGBT
Community Pioneers Reception, at the Thurgood

Marshall Center. 6:30-8 p.m. 1816 12th St. NW. For
more information, visit thedccenter.org.
THE DENIM COLLECTION and several local
community partners host Play It Safe, a discussion

on intimate partner violence within the LGBT
community. 6-7 p.m. The Loft, 600 F St. NW, Suite
300. For more information, visit thedccenter.org.
TRANS* PEER SUPPORT GROUP meets at
Whitman-Walker Health. 6:30-8 p.m. 1701 14th St.

NW. For more information, visit
whitman-walker.org.
WEEKLY EVENTS
offers free HIV testing, 9-5 p.m., and HIV services

(by appointment). Call 202-291-4707, or visit
andromedatransculturalhealth.org.
DC AQUATICS CLUB (DCAC) practice session at

Takoma Aquatic Center, 300 Van Buren St. NW.
7:30-9 p.m. swimdcac.org.
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DC LAMBDA SQUARES gay and lesbian square-
dancing group features mainstream through

advanced square dancing at the National City
Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW, 7-9:30 p.m.
Casual dress. 301-257-0517, dclambdasquares.org.
The DULLES TRIANGLES Northern Virginia social
group meets for happy hour at Sheraton in Reston,
11810 Sunrise Valley Drive, second-floor bar, 7-9
p.m. All welcome. dullestriangles.com.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker Health. At

the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center, 1701 14th St.
NW, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. At the Max Robinson Center,
2301 MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. For an
appointment call 202-745-7000. Visit whitmanwalker.org.
IDENTITY offers free and confidential HIV testing
in Gaithersburg, 414 East Diamond Ave., and in

Takoma Park, 7676 New Hampshire Ave., Suite 411.
Walk-ins 2-6 p.m. For appointments other hours,
call Gaithersburg, 301-300-9978, or Takoma Park,
301-422-2398.
METROHEALTH CENTER offers free, rapid HIV

testing. Appointment needed. 1012 14th St. NW,
Suite 700. 202-638-0750.
SMYAL offers free HIV Testing, 3-5 p.m., by

appointment and walk-in, for youth 21 and younger.
202-567-3155 or testing@smyal.org.
US HELPING US hosts a Narcotics Anonymous
Meeting, 6:30-7:30 p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave. NW.

The group is independent of UHU. 202-446-1100.
WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE for young

LBTQ women, 13-21, interested in leadership
development. 5-6:30 p.m. SMYAL Youth Center,
410 7th St. SE. 202-567-3163, catherine.chu@smyal.
org.
FRIDAY, MAY 15
LGB PSYCHOTHERAPY GROUP for adults in
Montgomery County meets every Friday to explore

issues of identity. 10-11:30 a.m. 16220 S. Frederick
Rd., Suite 512, Gaithersburg, Md. For more
information, visit thedccenter.org.
LGBT FALLEN HEROES WEEK DINING FOR

DOLLARS AND JAIL & BAIL FUNDRAISING
SOCIAL takes place at Town Danceboutique.
Fundraising benefits LGBT Fallen Heroes Fund.

6-11 p.m. 2009 8th St. NW. For more information,
visit towndc.com.
offers free HIV testing, 9-5 p.m., and HIV

services (by appointment). 202-291-4707,
DC AQUATICS CLUB (DCAC) practice session
at Hains Point, 927 Ohio Dr. SW. 6:30-8 p.m. Visit

swimdcac.org.
GAY DISTRICT holds facilitated discussion for

GBTQ men, 18-35, first and third Fridays. 8:30 p.m.
The DC Center, 2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. 202682-2245, gaydistrict.org.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker Health. At
the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center, 1701 14th St.
NW, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. At the Max Robinson Center,
2301 MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. For an
appointment call 202-745-7000. Visit whitmanwalker.org.
METROHEALTH CENTER offers free, rapid HIV
testing. Appointment needed. 1012 14th St. NW,
Suite 700. 202-638-0750.
PROJECT STRIPES hosts LGBT-affirming social
group for ages 11-24. 4-6 p.m. 1419 Columbia Road

NW. Contact Tamara, 202-319-0422, layc-dc.org.
SMYALS REC NIGHT provides a social

atmosphere for GLBT and questioning youth,
featuring dance parties, vogue nights, movies and
games. More info, catherine.chu@smyal.org.
SMYAL offers free HIV Testing, 3-6 p.m., by
appointment and walk-in, for youth 21 and younger.
Youth Center, 410 7th St. SE. 202-567-3155,
testing@smyal.org.
SATURDAY, MAY 16
BURGUNDY CRESCENT, a gay volunteer
organization, volunteers today for Lost Dog & Cat
Rescue Foundation at Falls Church PetSmart. To
participate, burgundycrescent.org.
CAPITAL TRANS PRIDE celebrates family, friends
and allies of the transgender community. The day
includes workshops, presentations, networking
opportunities and various vendors. 10 a.m.-4
p.m. Reeves Center, 2000 14th St. NW. For more
information, visit capitalpride.org/transpride.
CHRYSALIS arts & culture group holds potluck
dinner on roof deck of Kalorama co-op building

overlooking downtown. 7 p.m. All welcome. Bring
appetizer, salad, entre, vegetable dish or dessert,
plus serving utensils. Kevin, 703-464-9040, x1.
kgiles27@gmail.com.
MISSION: ENGAGE features a speech by Army

Reserve officer and Brigadier General Tammy
Smith, the first gay general to serve openly in the
military, at Level One Restaurant. 12 p.m. 1639 R
St. NW. For more information, visit missionengage.
eventbrite.com.
PRAYERS FOR PETS, an event of BJC, provides
an afternoon for pet owners to socialize with each
other. 1-2:30 p.m. 6601 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, Md.
For more information, visit bethesdajewish.org or
call 301-469-8636.
THE DC CENTERS ASYLUM SEEKERS/
ASYLEES FORUM for LGBT refugees and asylees
and the people who support them, meets once a
month. 7-9 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. For
more information, visit thedccenter.org.
WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETYs mobile

animal adoption vehicle, Adopt Force 1, comes to
the Sugar House Day Spa & Salon. 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
111 North Alfred St., Alexandria, Va. For more
information, visit washhumane.org/adopt.
WEEKLY EVENTS
offers free HIV testing, 9-5 p.m., and HIV
services (by appointment). 202-291-4707 or
BET MISHPACHAH, founded by members of the

LGBT community, holds Saturday morning Shabbat
services, 10 a.m., followed by Kiddush luncheon.
Services in DCJCC Community Room, 1529 16th St.
NW. betmish.org.
BRAZILIAN GLBT GROUP, including others
interested in Brazilian culture, meets. For location/
time, email braziliangaygroup@yahoo.com.
DC AQUATICS CLUB (DCAC) practice session at
Hains Point, 972 Ohio Dr., SW. 8:30-10 a.m. Visit
swimdcac.org.
DC FRONT RUNNERS running/walking/social
club welcomes all levels for exercise in a fun and

supportive environment, socializing afterward.
Meet 9:30 a.m., 23rd & P Streets NW, for a walk; or
10 a.m. for fun run. dcfrontrunners.org.
DC SENTINELS basketball team meets at Turkey
Thicket Recreation Center, 1100 Michigan Ave. NE,

2-4 p.m. For players of all levels, gay or straight.
teamdcbasketball.org.
DIGNITYUSA sponsors Mass for LGBT community,

family and friends. 6:30 p.m., Immanuel Churchon-the-Hill, 3606 Seminary Road, Alexandria. All
welcome. For more info, visit dignitynova.org.
GAY LANGUAGE CLUB discusses critical

languages and foreign languages. 7 p.m. Nellies,
900 U St. NW. RVSP preferred. brendandarcy@
gmail.com.
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IDENTITY offers free and
confidential HIV testing in Takoma

Park, 7676 New Hampshire Ave.,
Suite 411. Walk-ins 12-3 p.m. For
appointments other hours, call 301422-2398.
SUNDAY, MAY 17
ADVENTURING outdoors group
hikes 8 miles on Appalachian Trail in
Md., north of I-70. Bring beverages,
lunch, sturdy boots, bug spray,
sunscreen and about $12 for fees.
Carpool at 9 a.m. from GrosvenorStrathmore Metro Station. Dale, 808782-3027. 4-8 p.m. Potluck dinner to
follow in private home in Alexandria.
John, 703-914-1439. adventuring.org.
DCS DIFFERENT DRUMMERS
provides a social event to meet new

people at Mr. Henrys Restaurant.
Performance by the DC Swing Band.
5-8 p.m. 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE.
For more information, visit
QUEER QUEENS COMEDY hosts

an evening with queer comedians
Poppy Champlin and Karen Williams.
7-8 p.m. Jammin Java, 227 Maple
Ave. East, Vienna, Va. For more
information, visit jamminjava.com.
WEEKLY EVENTS
LGBT-inclusive ALL SOULS
MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH
celebrates Low Mass at 8:30 a.m.,
High Mass at 11 a.m. 2300 Cathedral
Ave. NW. 202-232-4244,
allsoulsdc.org.
BETHEL CHURCH-DC progressive

and radically inclusive church holds
services at 11:30 a.m. 2217 Minnesota
Ave. SE. 202-248-1895, betheldc.org.
DC AQUATICS CLUB (DCAC)
practice session at Hains Point, 972

Ohio Dr., SW. 9:30-11 a.m. Visit
swimdcac.org.
DIGNITYUSA offers Roman Catholic

Mass for the LGBT community. 6
p.m., St. Margarets Church, 1820
Connecticut Ave. NW. All welcome.
Sign interpreted. For more info, visit
dignitynova.org.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITED

CHURCH OF CHRIST welcomes all
to 10:30 a.m. service, 945 G St. NW.
firstuccdc.org or 202-628-4317.
FRIENDS MEETING OF
WASHINGTON meets for worship,
10:30 a.m., 2111 Florida Ave. NW,

Quaker House Living Room (next to
Meeting House on Decatur Place),
2nd floor. Special welcome to lesbians
and gays. Handicapped accessible
from Phelps Place gate. Hearing
assistance. quakersdc.org.
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HOPE UNITED CHURCH OF

CHRIST welcomes GLBT community
for worship. 10:30 a.m., 6130 Old

Telegraph Road, Alexandria.
hopeucc.org.
INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL

DEVELOPMENT, God-centered new
age church & learning center. Sunday

Services and Workshops event. 5419
Sherier Place NW. isd-dc.org.
Join LINCOLN CONGREGATIONAL
TEMPLE UNITED CHURCH OF

CHRIST for an inclusive, loving and
progressive faith community every

Sunday. 11 a.m. 1701 11th Street NW,
near R in Shaw/Logan neighborhood.
lincolntemple.org.
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF
REFORMATION invites all to Sunday
worship at 8:30 or 11 a.m. Childcare is

available at both services. Welcoming
LGBT people for 25 years. 212 East
Capitol St. NE. reformationdc.org.
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
services at 11 a.m., led by Rev. Onetta
Brooks. Childrens Sunday School, 11
a.m. 10383 Democracy Lane, Fairfax.
703-691-0930, mccnova.com.
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
services at 9 a.m. (ASL interpreted)

and 11 a.m. Childrens Sunday School
at 11 a.m. 474 Ridge St. NW. 202-6387373, mccdc.com.
NATIONAL CITY CHRISTIAN

CHURCH, inclusive church with
GLBT fellowship, offers gospel

worship, 8:30 a.m., and traditional
worship, 11 a.m. 5 Thomas Circle NW.
202-232-0323, nationalcitycc.org.
NEW HSV-2 SOCIAL AND

SUPPORT GROUP for gay men
living in the DC metro area. This

group will be meeting once a month.
For information on location and time,
email to not.the.only.one.dc@gmail.
com.
RIVERSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH,

a Christ-centered, interracial,
welcoming-and-affirming church,
offers service at 10 a.m. 680 I St. SW.
202-554-4330, riversidedc.org.
ST. STEPHEN AND THE
INCARNATION, an interracial,
multi-ethnic Christian Community

offers services in English, 8 a.m. and
10:30 a.m., and in Spanish at 5:15 p.m.
1525 Newton St. NW. 202-232-0900,
saintstephensdc.org.
UNITARIAN CHURCH OF
ARLINGTON, an LGBTQ welcoming-
and-affirming congregation, offers

services at 10 a.m. Virginia Rainbow
UU Ministry. 4444 Arlington Blvd.
uucava.org.
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
CHURCH OF SILVER SPRING invites
LGBTQ families and individuals of all
creeds and cultures to join the church.
Services 9:15 and 11:15 a.m. 10309 New
Hampshire Ave. uucss.org.
UNIVERSALIST NATIONAL
MEMORIAL CHURCH, a welcoming
and inclusive church. GLBT
Interweave social/service group
meets monthly. Services at 11 a.m.,
Romanesque sanctuary. 1810 16th St.
NW. 202-387-3411, universalist.org.
MONDAY, MAY 18
CENTER FAITH, a group for LGBT
people and their allies from various

faith traditions, meets at The DC
Center. 6-8 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW,
Suite 105. For more information, visit
thedccenter.org.
WEEKLY EVENTS

Ohio Dr. SW. 7-8:30 p.m. Visit
swimdcac.org.
DC SCANDALS RUGBY holds
US HELPING US hosts a black gay

mens evening affinity group. 3636
Georgia Ave. NW. 202-446-1100.
WASHINGTON WETSKINS Water
Polo Team practices 7-9 p.m. Takoma
Aquatic Center, 300 Van Buren St.
NW. Newcomers with at least basic
swimming ability always welcome.
Tom, 703-299-0504, secretary@
wetskins.org, wetskins.org.
Whitman-Walker Health HIV/
AIDS SUPPORT GROUP for newly
diagnosed individuals, meets 7 p.m.
Registration required. 202-939-7671,
hivsupport@whitman-walker.org.
TUESDAY, MAY 19
CENTER BI, a group of The DC
Center, holds a monthly roundtable

discussion on issues related to
bisexuality. 7-9:30 p.m. 2000 14th St.
NW, Suite 105. For more information,
visit thedccenter.org.
The DC Centers YOUTH WORKING
GROUP holds a monthly meeting.
6:30-7:30 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW,
Suite 105. For more information, visit
thedccenter.org.
practice, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Garrison

Elementary, 1200 S St. NW.
dcscandals.wordpress.com.
WEEKLY EVENTS
GETEQUAL meets 6:30-8 p.m. at
ANDROMEDA TRANSCULTURAL
HEALTH offers free HIV testing,
Quaker House, 2111 Florida Ave. NW.

getequal.wdc@gmail.com.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker

Health. At the Elizabeth Taylor
Medical Center, 1701 14th St. NW,
9 a.m.-5 p.m. At the Max Robinson
Center, 2301 MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m. For an appointment call
202-745-7000. Visit
whitman-walker.org.
KARING WITH INDIVIDUALITY
(K.I.) SERVICES, 3333 Duke St.,
Alexandria, offers free rapid HIV

testing and counseling, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
703-823-4401.
METROHEALTH CENTER offers free,

rapid HIV testing. No appointment
needed. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. 1012 14th St.
NW, Suite 700. 202-638-0750.
NOVASALUD offers free HIV testing.

5-7 p.m. 2049 N. 15th St., Suite 200,
Arlington. Appointments: 703-7894467.
SMYAL offers free HIV Testing, 3-5

p.m., by appointment and walk-in, for
youth 21 and younger. Youth Center,
410 7th St. SE. 202-567-3155 or
testing@smyal.org.
The DC Center hosts COFFEE
DROP-IN FOR THE SENIOR

LGBT COMMUNITY. 10 a.m.-noon.
9-5 p.m., and HIV services (by

appointment). 202-291-4707,
ASIANS AND FRIENDS weekly

dinner in Dupont/Logan Circle area,
6:30 p.m. afwash@aol.com,
afwashington.net.
practice session at Takoma Aquatic

Center, 300 Van Buren St. NW. 7:30-9
p.m. swimdcac.org.
DC FRONT RUNNERS running/
walking/social club serving greater

D.C.s LGBT community and
allies hosts an evening run/walk.
dcfrontrunners.org.
THE GAY MENS HEALTH

COLLABORATIVE offers free
HIV testing and STI screening and

treatment every Tuesday. 5-6:30
p.m. Rainbow Tuesday LGBT Clinic,
Alexandria Health Department, 4480
King St. 703-746-4986 or text 571-2149617. james.leslie@inova.org.

Center, 2301 MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m. For an appointment call
202-745-7000. Visit
whitman-walker.org.
2000 14th St. NW. 202-682-2245,

thedccenter.org.
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THE HIV WORKING GROUP of THE

DC CENTER hosts Packing Party,
THE LAMBDA BRIDGE CLUB meets

for Duplicate Bridge. 7:30 p.m. Dignity
Center, 721 8th St. SE, across from
the Marine Barracks. No reservation
needed. 703-407-6540 if you need a
partner.
IDENTITY offers free and
WOMAN TO WOMAN: A SUPPORT

GROUP FOR HIV-POSITIVE
WOMEN WHO LOVE WOMEN,
where volunteers assemble safe-sex

kits of condoms and lube. 7 p.m.,
Green Lantern, 1335 Green Court
NW. thedccenter.org.
confidential HIV testing in

Gaithersburg, 414 East Diamond
Ave., and in Takoma Park, 7676 New
Hampshire Ave., Suite 411. Walk-ins
2-6 p.m. For appointments other
hours, call Gaithersburg at 301-3009978 or Takoma Park at 301-4222398.
KARING WITH INDIVIDUALITY

(K.I.) SERVICES, at 3333 Duke St.,
Alexandria, offers free rapid HIV

testing and counseling, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
703-823-4401.
METROHEALTH CENTER offers
free, rapid HIV testing. Appointment

needed. 1012 14th St. NW, Suite 700.
202-638-0750.
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS
LGBT focused meeting every
Tuesday, 7 p.m. St. Georges
Episcopal Church, 915 Oakland Ave.,
Arlington, just steps from Virginia
Square Metro. For more info. call
Dick, 703-521-1999. Handicapped
accessible. Newcomers welcome.
liveandletliveoa@gmail.com.
SMYAL offers free HIV Testing, 3-5
p.m., by appointment and walk-in,
for youth 21 and younger. Youth
Center, 410 7th St. SE. 202-567-3155,
testing@smyal.org.
SUPPORT GROUP FOR LGBTQ
YOUTH ages 13-21 meets at SMYAL,
410 7th St. SE, 5-6:30 p.m. Cathy
Chu, 202-567-3163, catherine.chu@
smyal.org.
US HELPING US hosts a support

Ohio Dr. SW. 7-8:30 p.m. Visit
swimdcac.org.
DC SCANDALS RUGBY holds
practice, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Garrison

Elementary, 1200 S St. NW.
dcscandals.wordpress.com.
HISTORIC CHRIST CHURCH
offers Wednesday worship 7:15 a.m.

and 12:05 p.m. All welcome. 118 N.
Washington St., Alexandria. 703-5491450, historicchristchurch.org.

Center, 2301 MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m. For an appointment call 202745-7000. Visit whitman-walker.org.
IDENTITY offers free and confidential
Whitman-Walker Healths GAY
JOB CLUB, a weekly support program
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20
BOOKMEN DC, an informal mens
gay-literature group, discusses Gay
American Autobiography: Writings
from Whitman to Sedaris. David
Bergman, editor. 7:30 p.m. DC Center,
2000 14th St NW, Suite 105. All are
welcome. bookmendc.blogspot.com.
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AD LIB, a group for freestyle

conversation, meets about 6:30-6 p.m.,
Steam, 17th and R NW. All welcome.
For more information, call Fausto
Fernandez, 703-732-5174.
HIV testing in Gaithersburg, 414

East Diamond Ave. Walk-ins 2-7 p.m.
For appointments other hours, call
Gaithersburg at 301-300-9978.
14th St. NW. Patients are seen on

walk-in basis. No-cost screening
for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea and
chlamydia. Hepatitis and herpes
testing available for fee. whitmanwalker.org.
MAY 14, 2015
WEEKLY EVENTS
group for black gay men 40 and older.

7-9 p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave. NW. 202446-1100.
MENS HEALTH AND WELLNESS/

STD CLINIC opens at 6 p.m., 1701
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meets on the third Wednesday of the

month at the Womens Collective.
Light refreshments served. 5:30-7 p.m.
1331 Rhode Island Ave. NE. For more
information, contact June Pollydore,
202-483-7003.
for job entrants and seekers, meets at

The DC Center. 2000 14th St. NW,
Suite 105. 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. More info,
www.centercareers.org.
METROHEALTH CENTER offers free,

rapid HIV testing. No appointment
needed. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. 1012 14th St.
NW, Suite 700. 202-638-0750.
NOVASALUD offers free HIV testing.

11 a.m.-2 p.m. 2049 N. 15th St., Suite
200, Arlington. Appointments: 703789-4467.
PRIME TIMERS OF DC, social club

for mature gay men, hosts weekly
happy hour/dinner. 6:30 p.m.,
Windows Bar above Dupont Italian
Kitchen, 1637 17th St. NW. Carl,
703-573-8316. l
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[Sisters Act]
AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF DEMONSTRATORS ON THE STEPS OF THE
Supreme Court last month in the lead-up to oral arguments over marriage equality, seven proponents stood
out. They wore habits, headdresses and painted faces.
Neither true nuns nor traditional drag queens, yet drawing inspiration from both, the Sisters of Perpetual
Indulgence no doubt unsettled, even offended, at least a few fellow activists particularly on Saturday, Aug.
25, when approximately 6,000 protesters were assembled on behalf of the anti-gay National Organization
for Marriage.
Even some LGBT activists have been critical or wary of the infamous Sisters organization, a mostly gay
collective started 36 years ago in San Francisco.
The Sisters are often accused of ruining it for everyone, says Christopher Thompson, better known as
Sister Sedusa Poly Tishun. To an extent, thats kind of the point. Were ruining the guilt that people try to
throw upon us.... We have been made to feel guilty for so long for being gay, to feel guilty for wanting the
same rights and respect that everyone else has. And sometimes, the loudest wheel is the one you take care
of first, so thats kind of what we are. We are that loud, squeaky wheel.
In terms of shock value, it doesnt get much louder than the Sisters and its brand of drag activism.
Thompson cites that as a key reason D.C. has struggled for decades to establish a mission affiliated with the
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THEYRE
HERE,
THEYRE
QUEER,
AND D.C.
IS GETTING
USED TO THE
SISTERS OF
PERPETUAL
INDULGENCE
AND THEIR
DRAG
ACTIVISM
BY
DOUG RULE
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
JULIAN VANKIM
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international Sisters organization.

While D.C. is politically liberal, it tends to be very
socially conservative and thats not necessarily a bad
thing. Thats just how it falls. I think with D.C. being
the place of political power, sometimes it gets stuck in
its own head. And gets stuck in the mentality I dont
mean this in a bad way of keeping up appearances and
being respectable.
But less than two years ago, Thompson, a federal
contractor by day, decided to try to shake things up. He
vowed to bring a little frivolity and rebelliousness and
sister magic to the District. A native of Alabama who had
recently moved to D.C. from Virginias Shenandoah Valley,
Thompson worked with a sister originally from Seattle to
identify some prospective local siblings, mostly via social
media. By October 2013, Thompson had become Sedusa
Poly Tishun, a name partly triggered by lust for a certain
Pennsylvania Representative who broke Facebook with a
college football photo (openly gay U.S. Rep. Brian Sims).
Eventually, Sedusa recruited the minimum six aspirants
needed to form a proper mission.
In mid-March of this year, the San Francisco-based
United Nuns Privy Council, the rather loosely organized
Sisters main governing body, granted mission status
to the DC Sisters. The lofty official name, inspired by
Charles Dickenss term for early Washington, is the
Abbey of Magnificent Intentions. Sedusa serves as the
Abbess of the mission, leading its work in fundraising,
fun-raising and hell-raising.
Each sister had her own reasons for joining the
group, whether drawn to the style of drag clownish,
very hair-friendly and androgynous or style of activism, or both. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence first
gained national attention in the 1980s helping out during the AIDS crisis, and advocacy of safer sex and HIV
prevention and treatment remains a key motivation for
many. Most of the community outreach happens at bars.
In just the past few months, the DC Sisters have become
a regular presence at the DC Eagle, JR.s, Number Nine
and the Green Lantern. Anyone can become a sister
straight or gay, man or woman, and anything in between
as long as they believe in the organizations queerfriendly come as you are outlook and dedication to
promulgate universal joy.
Its all about seeing people smile and laugh and have
a good time, Sister Sedusa says. As well as reminding
people, theres nothing wrong with being gay, theres
nothing wrong with being trans, theres nothing wrong
with being HIV positive. And helping people accept
their own lives and live their reality.
The DC Sisters next appear at the Dining for Dollars
fundraiser for the LGBT Fallen Heroes Fund during
Bear Happy Hour this Friday, May 15, from 6 p.m. to 9
p.m. downstairs at Town Danceboutique, 2009 8th St.
NW. Tickets, including food from Mission BBQ and one
specialty cocktail, are $20. Call 202-234-TOWN or visit
lgbtfallenheroesfund.org.
For more information on the DC Sisters, visit
facebook.com/dcsisters.
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S N S
S P T
I take pride in being one of the two tallest of the DC Sisters,
as well as having amazing lips!
What inspired you to join?
Id heard of them before, but they were never in an area close to where I
was living. Then a few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting the Atlanta
Sisters, and something just clicked in my brain. I knew
I wanted to bring that magic and joy to D.C.
Have you ever done drag before?
I had considered it in the past. Unfortunately,
it involves way too much hair removal
for my liking.
Whats your catchphrase?
I dont have one! I need to
correct that!
S N S
A L
I adore Catholic nuns and the work they do. While its
subtle, and not always the case, I do try to dress
like many of the modern nuns.
I love all that nuns stand for: faith, dedication, hope,
justice, service. I learned of the Sisters of Perpetual
Indulgence in a course on religions waging peace. I fell
in love with the unique way Sisters minister to our communities. I was brought to tears when I heard stories of
Sisters, with white face and crazy outfits, walking to the
store with a person with AIDS so that people would stare
at the queerdo and not the sickly person next to them.
And I knew I had to join the first time I met a Sister, and
she blessed me and told me to go and sin some more.
Have you ever been involved in activism before?
Activism and advocacy have been part of my entire
adult life. I cut my teeth in activism while in college.
I was a young adult organizer for a queer faith-based
organization that works to make churches more LGBTQfriendly. Since then, I have been involved in several
justice-seeking movements, including camping out with
the Occupy Wall Street. In my secular life, I work for a
national, faith-based reproductive justice organization.
Talk to your doctor
about PrEP.
S N S
T BR
A fun-loving southern girl with a tambourine.
I first encountered the Sisters in the early 90s in San
Francisco. I was drawn to their HIV/AIDS outreach/activism and their speaking out against The Church (Catholic
and Protestant) both areas about which I am passionate.
During that time I was in the military so I was
unable to be active with The Sisters.
Have you ever done drag before?
Yes, mainly for fun. I performed in Grand Forks, North
Dakota, but have never done drag professionally.
Ive worked in HIV/AIDS outreach and activism since 1996.
As the youth leader for MCC-DC from 2000 to 2006, thanks
to Sister Ray Dee, I would like to join in the movement
speaking out against conversion therapy because of its connection, in most cases, with religious fundamentalism. While
great advances have been made in both areas, HIV stigma
continues even in the gay community and LGBTQ
youth (and adults) are still being hurt by
hatred disguised as Christianity.
Live life to its fullest no regrets, only lessons learned.
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T B
The only thing I take seriously is my nails, so if I can bring a smile to your
face, a chuckle to your heart and you can bring me a doughnut,
I have done my job.
The Sisters offer me an outlet where I can do my drag the way I want,
and be an active member of the gay community. They allow me the freedom to explore who I am and hone the skills I have so I can become a better person and offer out the best of me.
Have you ever been involved in drag before?
After college I dabbled in drag but I didnt like having to shave (face,
chest, arms, pits, back. Get me a weed whacker!). And the tuck this
gurl was not meant to tuck. I put my drag persona away for a
few years but every once in a while I would pull out the heels
to vacuum. A little while later Novice Sister Queen
mentioned SPI and the rest is a glittery release.
Have you ever been involved in
activism before?
No, prior to this I didnt find
activism to be my calling.
To be honest, I still dont.
I find my best way of
connecting with people
is through laughter
and lightheartedness.
S N S
T U
Southern charm With lots of
glitter and pearls. A southern lady
always wears her pearls!
Theres just so much good that needs to
be done in this world, so much hate to overcome. I just want to be a part of the good!
Have you ever been involved
in activism before?
Just volunteering with groups
such as HRC.
Hugs and love, Darling!
S N S
J! T
I have a loving and joyful heart,
and I try to spread warmth and magic
in all of my encounters. Come and say hi!
I see the Sisters commitment to raising fun, raising funds,
and raising hell as a way to promote social justice,
raise consciousness, and give back to the community.
I have been involved in safer sex education and
HIV prevention work since the early 1990s.
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Everyone needs a little joy in their life!
N S
D A DM
I pull from my grandmother, who used to be
a Geisha clown that would perform for children in hospitals.
focuses in burlesque and drag. I have performed as a king,

though primarily as a queen, for 8 years up
and down the East Coast.
I learned about the Sisters when I was

young and was immediately entranced by
the work that they do. I thought that as a
cisgender woman, I could not be a Sister
but after becoming friends with a Sister
from San Francisco, I decided I wanted
to take the vows and work to making
the world a better place as
a Drag Queen Nun.
I have always tried to include activism in my life. I feel it is our

job to make the world a better place for everyone and to be the
change we want. Complacency is a killer and its wonderful to be
part of an organization where that is not an option.
All you need is your own imagination so use it, thats
what its for. Go inside, for your finest inspiration.
Your dreams will open the door.... Vogue.

in drag before?
I work as a performance artist that
S N S
R D OA
I am the slutty one. And the nerdy one.
#sexynerd
The Sisters mission is in complete alignment with my passion for removing the guilt
people feel every day (unjustly placed on
them, let your freak flag fly!) and the joy the
Sisters bring is so, so, so beautiful.
Ive only done drag a couple times,
but Ive been in heels for years.
in activism before?
I am very involved in the activism work
to end conversion therapy. As a survivor, I
speak for those traumatized by the horrible
practice of conversion therapy and work with
advocates to bring legislation, litigation, and
public education to the efforts
to end conversion therapy.
Let the radiant glow of joy
guide your day.
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N S
Q I F
Heather! Really? OMG! Heather!
I wanted to do more than I could through an
organization that was more than I could be.
While always interested in activism, I never had
the ovarian fortitude to get off the
couch and care until the Sisters.
On behalf of her royal travesty.
S N S
M T
I never really do the same face twice.
I have extreme body image issues and with the Sisters, Ive
found a family that accepts me for the person that I am...not
the person people expect me to be.
Not really...
Somewhat.
Bless your heart, my dearie. l
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Souls
Utility and Beauty. Style and Safety.
Our shoes say a lot more than you think
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masterpieces of bespoke boots and original oxfords just for men. And
Ruth Pettus uses shoes as an illustration of where the wearer has been, and
where they are going.
The exhibit deconstructs footwear to challenge the viewer not only to
look at shoes differently, but to find beauty in the mundane objects we use
every day. So whether they be pumps, topsiders, or sneakers, slip on your
favorite pair, and head on down to the Strathmore to catch these shoes
before the last one drops. Connor J. Hogan
If the Shoe Fits runs at The Strathmore Mansion at 10701 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Md. until Sunday, May 31. The Gallery is open Tuesdays,
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Wednesdays from 10
a.m.9 p.m; and Sundays from 12 p.m.-4 p.m. They are closed on Mondays.
Admission is free to the public. l
PHOTO COURTESY OF STRATHMORE
HRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN ONCE SAID: A

shoe isnt only a design...its a part of your
body language. Nowadays, Louboutin is
synonymous with style, but there was a time when
shoes had nothing to do with style. They were
functional items to protect our ancestors feet. So,
how did something that was originally utilitarian
become a symbol for beauty?
In If the Shoe Fits, currently at the Strathmore
Mansion, Harriet Lesser explores this question.
This exhibit examines, extends, transforms, and
informs our ideas about shoes as art, Lesser says,
and art as shoes.
Lesser believes humans have a genetic affinity
for aesthetics. When we first made bowls, Lesser
says, the first thing we did was decorate them.
Why? They would have held the soup regardless. I
think attraction to beauty is in our nature.
The exhibit gathers work from 23 artists, each
with their own approach to the theme of footwear. Joyce Zippener embraces the inflexibility
imposed on women in their shoes by crafting heels
out of metal and wood. Austrian-born Carolin
Holzhuber embraces leather, making shoes that
look organic and chimerical.
While the exhibition features many heels, they
arent the only style on display. The work of Anne
Marika Verploegh Chasse and her students are
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PITCH PERFECT 2
SPOTLIGHT
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mario Venzago conducts the BSO and pianist Oliver

Schnyder for a program that includes the shimmering La Mer, one of Debussys most admired
works, Richard Strausss Don Juan and Schuberts
Symphony No. 8 Unfinished. Friday, May 15, at 8
p.m., and Sunday, May 17, at 3 p.m. Joseph Meyerhoff
Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St., Baltimore.
Also Saturday, May 16, at 8 p.m. Music Center at
Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda.
Tickets are $29 to $95. Call 410-783-8000 or visit
bsomusic.org.
EAT WITH ME
Reel Affirmations presents this directorial debut by

David Au, focused on a mother who decides to live
for a while with her estranged son, a chef, in downtown Los Angeles. Mom needs to come to terms with
her gay son, and her boy needs to get over his fears
of intimacy. They learn to communicate through
food when not with words. Sharon Omi, Teddy Chen
Culver and Nicole Sullivan star in this film featuring
a surprise moment from George Takei. A Chinese tea
ceremony and reception by the Social Tea House and
catered by chef Tyonne follows the 7 p.m. screening.
Friday, May 15, at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. HRC Equality
Center, 1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW. Tickets are $10
or $25 for VIP including one cocktail, one popcorn
and designated seating. Call 202-682-2245 or visit
reelaffirmations.org.
GAY MENS CHORUS OF WASHINGTON
Born This Way is the title of the latest concert by

everyones favorite gay mens chorus, a toast to the
equal rights movements, with the full choir joined
by special guest Maiya Sykes from NBCs The Voice,
members of the Metropolitan Community Church
choir and, in its debut, the organizations GenOut
Chorus of area high school students. Friday, May
15, at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 16, at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW. Tickets are $25 to
$59. Call 202-328-6000 or visit thelincolndc.com.
GOURMET SYMPHONY
Washingtons newest classical music organization is

unlike all the rest. Created partly to shake up how
people experience and engage with classical music,
the Gourmet Symphony includes a pre-concert cocktail reception and a four-course dinner, which will
be served during the concert. After a Valentines Day
debut at the Atlas, the organization goes al fresco by
performing on the garden patio at Beucherts Saloon
on Capitol Hill. The focus is on the craft of woodworking and its influence on music, whiskey production
and the open-flame culinary arts. Veteran D.C. craft
beverage expert Jeff Wells and chef Andrew Markert
will offer drink and food pairings to be enjoyed as
John Devlin leads a chamber ensemble. Wednesday,
May 20, starting at 6 p.m. Beucherts Saloon, 623
Pennsylvania Ave. SE. Tickets are $35, including
spirits tastings paired with custom small plates. Call
202-733-1384 or visit gourmetsymphony.org.
JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS
Studio Theatre offers the U.S. premiere by up-andcoming British playwright Tom Wells with a production of his play Jumpers for Goalposts, about an amateur gay soccer team with the great name Barely
Athletic in a rundown town. Matt Torney directs a
cast including Liam Forde, Michael Glenn, Jonathan
Judge-Russo, Zenko Martin and the great, newly
Helen Hayes Award-winning Kimberly Gilbert. Now
in previews. Runs to June 21. Studio Theatre, 14th
& P Streets NW. Call 202-332-3300 or visit studiotheatre.org.
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A surprise global hit the first time around, the Barden

Bellas are back, only this time the competition goes
global. If the same chemistry, humor and toe-tapping
mashups are in place for this sequel, well happily
dance to its beat. Fortunately, Anna Kendrick, Rebel
Wilson and Brittany Snow are among those returning
for this sequel, directed by Elizabeth Banks yes,
that Elizabeth Banks. Dont worry, the actress who
was one of the hysterical commentators from the
first film returns to that role too. Opens Friday, May
15. Now playing. Area theaters. Visit fandango.com.
THE BLOOD QUILT
Four disconnected African-American sisters reunite

at their childhood island home off the coast of
Georgia to create a family quilt honoring their recently deceased mother. Arena Stage offers this world
premiere by the companys inaugural resident playwright Katori Hall (The Mountaintop), directed by
Kamilah Forbes and featuring Afi Bijou, Caroline
Clay, Meeya Davis, Nikiya Mathis and Tonye Patano.
To June 7. Mead Center for American Theater, 1101
6th St. SW. Call 202-488-3300 or visit arenastage.org.
THE CALL
FILM
AFI FILM SERIES: ADVENTURES IN 3D
The American Film Institutes Silver Theatre continues its months-long series focused on use of
3D technology in various artistic genres, including in stage productions and animation. Next up:
The fantasy Coraline from stop-motion animator
Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas),
based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and released
in 2009 with Dakota Fanning voicing the title role.
Coraline screens Saturday, May 16, at 3:30 p.m. AFI
Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring.
Tickets are $9 to $12. Call 301-495-6720 or visit afi.
com/Silver.
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Retro not just in name, this reboot of the Mel Gibson

franchise drops Hollywoods penchant for CGI in
favor of live stunts and real crashes. Expect carnage
delicious, loud, endless carnage. Tom Hardy is
Max and Charlize Theron is his co-conspirator in
surviving post-apocalypse in this film directed by the
originals George Miller. Opens Friday, May 15. Now
playing. Area theaters. Visit fandango.com.
STAGE
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN
ARE DEAD
Aaron Posner directs the Tom Stoppard classic, an

inventive, existentialist tragicomedy that thrusts two
of Shakespeares most incidental characters into
the limelight. Ian Merrill Peakes and Brynn Tucker
bring to life these intrepid, somewhat bewildered,
characters famously killed off in Hamlet who
in Stoppards Tony-winning play from 1966 have
been summoned by the king to learn what afflicts
Hamlet. Now in previews. To June 21. A pre-show
Brews and Banter, with beer and light fare for $15,
is Thursday, May 21, at 6:30 p.m. Folger Theatre, 201
East Capitol St. SE. Tickets are $30 to $75. Call 202544-7077 or visit folger.edu.
SWING TIME! THE MUSICAL
Mike Thornton, an actor who has worked with

the satire group the Capitol Steps, and his wife,
Cecelia Fex, have teamed up as co-producers for this
big band-era musical revue about a group of performers putting together a wartime radio broadcast.
Featuring film clips plus a live jazz band, the show
features tunes made popular by Duke Ellington,
Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and
Cab Calloway. Next shows are Saturday, May 16, at 2
p.m., Wednesday, May 20, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday,
May 23, at 2 p.m. Select dates to June 27. U.S. Navy
Memorials Burke Theater, 701 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW. Tickets are $39 or $49. Call 202-393-4266 or
visit swingtimethemusical.com.
When Annie and Peter decide to adopt, they set

their sights on a child from Africa in Tanya Barfields
drama. Shirley Serotsky directs a Theater J production hosted by the Atlas. To May 31. Atlas Performing
Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. Tickets are $25 to $45.
Call 202-399-7993 or visit atlasarts.org.
THE ORIGINALIST
Molly Smith directs an Arena Stage world premiere

of John Strands play about one of the biggest enemies to the LGBT cause and civil rights in general:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Its hard to
get excited about this one, although no doubt fourtime Helen Hayes Award winner Edward Gero will
do Scalia justice. The play is performed in the Mead
Centers Kogod Cradle in a new three-quarter thrust
configuration. Next show is Tuesday, May 19, at 7:30
p.m. Extended to May 31. Mead Center for American
Theater, 1101 6th St. SW. Call 202-488-3300 or visit
arenastage.org.
THE FIRE AND THE RAIN
The ever ambitious and adept Constellation Theatre

Company once again dares to stage an international
epic, this time a family drama drawn from The
Mahabharata written by Indias most celebrated contemporary playwright Girish Karnad. Allison Arkell
Stockman directs the production with live music by
Tom Teasley. To May 24. Source Theatre, 1835 14th
St. NW. Tickets are $35 to $45. Call 202-204-7741 or
visit constellationtheatre.org.
MUSIC
ANI DIFRANCO, THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
JusticeAid presents this concert, a benefit for the

Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project and the Innocence
Project New Orleans, and featuring the queer-popular indie-rock pioneer Ani DiFranco and the eightman-strong gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama.
Sunday, May 17. Doors at 6:30 p.m. Lincoln Theatre,
1215 U St. NW. Tickets are $75 to $150. Call 202-3286000 or visit thelincolndc.com.
ARMIN VAN BUUREN, CHILDISH GAMBINO AT

PREAKNESS INFIELDFEST
Before the 140th running of the Preakness Stakes

comes performances, organized by IMP Productions,
this year headlined by veteran Dutch EDM DJ/
producer Armin Van Buuren and rapper Childish
Gambino, also known as actor Donald Glover. Also on
the bill for the InFieldFest: Easton Corbin, Trampled
by Turtles and A Thousand Horses. Glenn Morrison,
Frank Walker, Switchfoot, Eli Young Band, Sundy
Best and Go Go Gadjet. Saturday, May 16. Starting
at 8 a.m. yes, thats a.m. Pimlico Race Course,
5201 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore. Tickets are $50
to $140. Call 877-206-8042, ext. 300, or visit preakness.com.
CAPITAL CITY SYMPHONY
Michael Jacko conducts a toast to the 150th anniversary of Sibelius, performing the great composers Symphony No. 5. with violinist Petteri Iivonen.
Sunday, May 17, at 5 p.m. Atlas Performing Arts
Center, 1333 H St. NE. Tickets are $25. Call 202-3997993 or visit atlasarts.org.
CHUS & CEBALLOS, FLASHY SUNDAYS
Over Memorial Day weekend the sharply designed,

intimate nightclub Flash in Shaw offers two
DJ-driven house music nights with serious gay
appeal. On Saturday, May 23, Chus Esteban and
Pablo Ceballos, who perform as Chus & Ceballos, one
of the worlds best progressive house acts, return for
a third time in less than a year to control arguably the
citys best sound system. The gay-popular straight
Spaniards just cant seem to get enough of the mixed
gay/straight crowds enthusiastic response. And then
the next night, Sunday, May 24, another de-facto DJ
duo, Sean Morris and Kurt TWiN Graves two of
D.C.s best gay house mixmasters once again tag
team on the turntables as part of their regular holiday
weekend party Flashy Sundays. Flash Nightclub, 645
Florida Ave. NW. Tickets are $15 to $20 for Chus &
Ceballos, $10 for Flashy Sundays. Call 202-827-8791
or visit flashdc.com.
DROP ELECTRIC AND LAUGHING MAN
A past performer at PhaseFest, the local Radiohead/

Sigur Ros-inspired band Drop Electric has had its
music featured in the trailer to 300: Rise of an Empire.
Film is integral to the band, which incorporates celluloid into its live act. They stop for another specially
created hometown show at Artisphere, co-presented
by DC Music Download and also featuring local band
Laughing Man, whose album Be Black Baby was
named one of the best of 2014 by the Washington City
Paper. Saturday, May 16, at 8 p.m. Artisphere, 1101
Wilson Blvd. Arlington. Tickets are $15. Call 703-8751100 or visit artisphere.com.
GREAT NOISE ENSEMBLE
Since composer and conductor Armando Bayolo

founded it in 2005, the Great Noise Ensemble has
become one of the most important and adventurous
ensembles in D.C. focused on contemporary classi-
cal music. The ensemble closes its 10th season with

Sean Doyles Letters From Zelda featuring soprano
Lisa Perry, Tom Schnaubers The Walrus and the
Carpenter, and Armando Bayolos epic and hilarious
Sacred Cows featuring mezzo-soprano Megan Ihnen
and baritone Andrew Sauvageau. Friday, May 15, at
8 p.m. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE.
atlasarts.org.
LENA SEIKALY
A month after the 100th anniversary of Baltimoreborn jazz legend Billie Holiday, this celebrated local
chanteuse offers another tribute with her quartet
featuring pianist Chris Grasso, bassist Zack Pride
and drummer Lenny Robinson. Saturday, May 16, at
8 p.m. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE.
atlasarts.org.
PAPADOSIO
Formed in Ohio but hailing from Asheville, N.C., this

quintet combines progressive rock with psychedelia,
folk with electronica and dance music with jam band
sounds. Papadosio continues to tour in support of
2012s double-set T.E.T.I.O.S., which stands for To
End The Illusion of Separation, a plea for unison.
Friday, May 15. Doors at 8 p.m. 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW.
Tickets are $18. Call 202-265-0930 or visit 930.com.
THE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON
Carl Orffs Carmina Burana gets performed in full

not just the well-known first and last movements
of this 24-movement masterpiece at this performance led by Scott Tucker and featuring soloists and
Boy and Girl Choristers of the Washington National
Cathedral, all accompanied by a large orchestra. O
Fortuna, indeed. Sunday, May 17, at 8 p.m. Kennedy
Center Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 to $75. Call 202467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org.
TV ON THE RADIO
The Associated Press has called this band the most

vital, current band in America. But if somehow
youve missed out on this quartets David Bowieesque progressive-rock output over the past decade,
you could easily begin your fandom with the bands
fifth studio set released last year: Seeds is easily the
most immediate and sharpest yet. Tuesday, May
19. Doors at 7 p.m. Echostage, 2135 Queens Chapel
Rd. NE. Tickets are $40. Call 202-503-2330 or visit
echostage.com.
WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA
Spanish director Joan Font directs a bright and

whimsical production of Rossinis retelling of
Cinderella, adding a few twists and featuring two
opera singers alternating in the title role: Isabel
Leonard and Tara Erraught, making her U.S. debut.
WNO offers this opera in an international co-production with four other opera companies from Europe
and the U.S. To May 21. Kennedy Center Opera
House. Tickets are $25 to $300. Call 202-467-4600
or visit kennedy-center.org.
WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS
Raised by blind parents in Pittsburgh who valued

playing music as a key way to engage and communicate, William Fitzsimmons folk music as a
professional singer-songwriter is as expressive and
richly orchestrated as you might expect from that
sort-of upbringing, akin to Iron & Wine or Sufjan
Stevens. But its also dramatically colored by years of
training and work as a counselor and therapist, with
lyrics often exploring complicated issues, such as the
personal and psychological effects of divorce and
mental health. The 9:30 Club presents this concert at
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U Street Music Hall, another local stop in support of

last years Lions, produced by Death Cab for Cuties
Chris Walla. Thursday, May 21, at 7 p.m. U Street
Music Hall, 1115A U St. NW. Tickets are $20. Call
202-588-1880 or visit ustreetmusichall.com.
DANCE
THE WASHINGTON BALLET
Three years ago, Septime Webres brand-new ballet Alice (In Wonderland), based on Lewis Carrolls
150-year-old classic fantasy, broke all box office
records for the Washington Ballet save for its
annual run of The Nutcracker and all before it
had even started its run. Now the whimsical production, featuring music by Matthew Pierce, costumes by Cirque du Soleil veteran Liz Vandal and
a grand, 24-foot puppet designed by Eric Van Wyk,
returns for another weekend at the Kennedy Center.
Thursday, May 14, and Friday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m.,
Saturday, May 16, at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and
Sunday, May 17, at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Kennedy
Center Eisenhower Theater. Tickets are $46 to $135.
Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-center.org.
READINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

RITA DOVE
A professor of English at the University of Virginia

and former U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove stops by
the Folger Shakespeare Library to share her favorite
poems by other poets as well as reading from her
own work, which includes 1987s Thomas and Beulah,
which earned her a Pulitzer Prize. Tuesday, May
19, at 7 p.m. Folger Theatre, 201 East Capitol St. SE.
Tickets are $15. Call 202-544-7077 or visit folger.edu.
STORY LEAGUE SINGS
D.C. storytelling organization Story League offers its

fifth event in which funny stories are bookended by
related karaoke-style songs and now Story League
Sings has become a competition, with the audience determining the winner of a $500 prize. The
DC Improvs Benjy Himmelfarb emcees this years
first-ever competition featuring five competitors
accompanied by local group the HariKaraoke Band
Gong Show, as well as a special story performance by
Story Leagues New York-based founder SM Shrake.
Saturday, May 16, at 9 p.m. 1811 14th St. NW. Tickets
are $20. Call 202-667-4490 or visit blackcatdc.com.
BEYOND BOLLYWOOD:
INDIAN AMERICANS SHAPE THE NATION
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center presents this ambitious and colorful exhibition on the
second floor of the National Museum of Natural
History, exploring the heritage, daily experiences
and diverse contributions of Indians and Indian
Americans. Through Aug. 16. National Museum of
Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. Call 202-633-1000 or visit mnh.si.edu.
ELAINE DE KOONING: PORTRAITS
John F. Kennedy, poets Frank OHara and Allen

Ginsberg, critic Harold Rosenberg, choreographer
Merce Cunningham, and painters Willem de Kooning
and Fairfield Porter are among the friends and family
members represented in a National Portrait Gallery
retrospective of this abstract expressionist painters
work. Most of de Koonings paintings hang in private
collection and have rarely been seen by the public
before. Through Jan. 10, 2016. National Portrait
Gallery, 8th and F Streets. NW. Call 202-633-8300 or
visit npg.si.edu.
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ReCreative Spaces presents, in conjunction with

(Up)Rising Festival, a solo gallery exhibit by Ganzeer,
a politically engaged artist who aims to offer a visually and emotionally compelling look at what it
means to live in America today from the perspective of those too-often silenced. Through May 30.
ReCreative Spaces at 1613 Rhode Island Ave. NE.
Visit recreativespaces.com.
MODERN SCULPTURE:
DIALOGUES IN THREE DIMENSIONS
While its galleries are closed for renovation and

expansion, the National Gallery of Art has set up
throughout its East Building a special installation of
modern sculpture from its renowned holdings. And
three times a week, the gallery offers a new 60-minute guided tour highlighting these works, allowing
patrons to engage with each other in open-ended
discussions about, in addition to the guide pointing
out connections between, the works on view, from
Alexander Calders monumental mobile Untitled
from 1976 to Andy Goldsworthys decade-old Roof.
The relationship between I.M. Peis East Building
and John Russell Pops West Building is also examined. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, at 1:30 p.m.
National Gallery of Art East Building Information
Desk, 3rd Street at Constitution Avenue NW. Call
202-737-4215 or visit nga.gov.
MONSTER FISH:
IN SEARCH OF THE LAST RIVER GIANTS
Based on the popular National Geographic Wild

series, this interactive exhibit includes clips from the
series, life-size fish sculptures and several familyfriendly activities designed to educate visitors about
the massive fish that Dr. Zeb Hogan, the aquatic ecologist who is the host of the Monster Fish series, has
spent decades exploring. Through Oct. 11. National
Geographic Museum, 1145 17th St. NW. Tickets are
$11. Call 202-857-7588 or visit ngmuseum.org.
ONCE THERE WERE BILLIONS
Once There Were Billions: Vanished Birds of North

America documents those species of birds weve lost
on this continent over the past two centuries, from
the puffin-like great auck to the Carolina parakeet
to the heath hen to the passenger pigeon, not to
be confused with the commonplace carrier pigeon.
Through October. National Museum of Natural
History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
Call 202-633-1000 or visit mnh.si.edu.
SPLENDOR & SURPRISE:

ELEGANT CONTAINERS, ANTIQUE TO MODERN
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The Hillwood Museum presents a special exhibition

featuring more than 80 remarkable boxes, coffers,
chests and other containers that reveal the ways in
which cultures have contained their most treasured
items and everyday objects over the past four centuries. Through June 7. Hillwood Estate, 4155 Linnean
Ave. NW. Suggested donation is $12. Call 202-6865807 or visit HillwoodMuseum.org.
THE VISIONARY EXPERIENCE:

SAINT FRANCIS TO FINSTER
Baltimores quirky Visionary Art Museum offers

its 20th annual exhibition, this one championing
lifes grand Eureka! moments, held in common
by Earths most dynamic and intuitive evolutionaries, from inventors, scientists, Americas founding
fathers, dreamers and saints. The show was co-curated by filmmaker and publisher Jodi Wille and AVAM
founder and director Rebecca Alban Hoffberger.
Through Aug. 30. American Visionary Art Museum,
800 Key Highway. Baltimore. Tickets are $15.95. Call
410-244-1900 or visit avam.org.
WINDOW TO WASHINGTON
Window to Washington: The Kiplinger Collection at

HSW is an exhibition at Washingtons Carnegie
Library that traces the development of the nations
capital from a sleepy Southern town to a modern
metropolis, as documented through the works of
artists. The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.,
exhibition was made possible by a donation from the
Kiplinger family. Its also an early step in a reorganization effort by the society, which has struggled to
revive ever since its short-lived effort a decade ago to
run a City Museum of Washington proved too ambitious. Open Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.,
at the Carnegie Library, 801 K St. NW. Call 202-3931420 or visit dchistory.org.
ZEN, TEA AND CHINESE ART

IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN
Well-known expressions of Japanese culture have

their roots in Chinese arts and ideas, from Buddhism
to tea to ink painting. The Smithsonian Institutions
Freer Gallery of Art offers an exhibition featuring
Chinese and Japanese paintings, lacquer ware and
ceramics from the 13th through the 19th centuries.
Through June 14. Freer Gallery of Art, Jefferson
Drive at 12th Street SW. Call 202-633-1000 or visit
asia.si.edu.
ABOVE AND BEYOND

A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Public radio star Garrison Keillor makes his annual

trek over Memorial Day weekend to Wolf Trap to
give D.C. another trip to his fictional-but-oh-soreal Lake Wobegon, including a live broadcast on
Saturday, May 23. This years Wolf Trap stop brings
special guests Sara Watkins of the bluegrass trio
Nickel Creek, Americana artist Sarah Jarosz and
Aoife ODonovan of the progressive bluegrass band
Crooked Still, in association with Minnesota Public
Radio and WAMU. Friday, May 22, at 8 p.m., and
Saturday, May 23, at 5:45 p.m. Wolf Trap, 1645 Trap
Rd., Vienna. Lawn seats are available for $25 to $65.
Call 703-255-1900 or visit wolf-trap.org.
JONATHAN TUZMAN AT LA-TI-DO
Regie Cabico and DonMike Mendozas La-Ti-Do

variety show is neither karaoke nor simply cabaret. In addition to higher-quality singing than most
impromptu karaoke, Cabico and co-host Mendoza
also select storytellers who offer spoken-word poetry and comedy. Now moved to James Hobans on
Dupont Circle, the next La-Ti-Do, Monday, May
18, serves as a Summer Kick-off Show with a tribute to Ben Folds from a full band led by Jonathan
Tuzman, the events resident pianist and Helen
Hayes Award-winning musical director, plus the
Alexandria Singers. Monday nights at 8 p.m. James
Hobans Irish Restaurant & Bar, 1 Dupont Circle
NW. Tickets are $15, or only $7 if you eat dinner at
the restaurant beforehand. Call 202-223-8440 or visit
latidodc.wix.com.
MARYLAND HOUSE AND GARDEN PILGRIMAGE
Nearly 50 extraordinary historic properties throughout Maryland are featured on this annual tour, now
in its 78th year. Sites include an Indian Village, a
Plantation house on the Patuxent River and other
landmarks in the War of 1812, with catered lunches available. The pilgrimage has raised more than
$1 million over the decades for the preservation
and restoration of architecturally significant properties in the state. The tour showcases homes in
stages by county, with remaining stops in: Anne
Arundel County on Saturday, May 16, Baltimore
City on Sunday, May 17, and Washington County on
Saturday, May 30. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35
day-of. Call 410-821-6933 or visit mhgp.org. l
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ENCHANTED
EVENING
Playwright Charles Busch, who forged a career parodying female screen legends,
steps into the cabaret spotlight
By Doug Rule
O YOU REALIZE WE PASSED ON THE YOUNG simplistic, but one wonders whether, in some strange alternate
universe, if there had been androgynous gay men playing leads in
James Franco and Ryan Reynolds?
Charles Busch was as surprised as anyone when movies with same-sex love stories, would we have needed those
director Robert Lee King recently revealed his cast- female icons?
Maybe the answer will come with the next gay generation,
ing notions for the small-budget 2000 film Psycho Beach Party.
I couldnt believe it, says Busch, who wrote the screenplay but who are growing up with a pop culture that is far gayer than
had no involvement in selecting the actors. At the time, I guess that of previous generations. Or, Busch volleys back, maybe not:
Ryan Reynolds was real skinny and just didnt seem sexy enough. Are there really that many more roles for androgynous young
men out there? How many times can you play Prior in Angels in
And James Franco was a little too subdued for the character.
Even without Reynolds and Franco the movie holds its own America?
Drag artists are certainly far more visible in American culin the celebrity department. A few years ago Metro Weekly
included this clever send-up of mid-20th century Hollywood ture now than they were four decades ago when Busch started
donning wigs. In fact, the 60-year-old doesnt
genres on its list of 13 Camp Films That
really think of himself as a drag queen, but
Everyone Should See, noting that the film
helped launch the career of lead protagonist
I think of myself as as an actor who just happens to perform in
drag. Drag is just part of the job, something he
Lauren Ambrose a year before she became
had to put on in order to play to his strength,
known as Claire, the prickly daughter on an old-style television
which is playing female characters.
HBOs Six Feet Under. And the films resident
set. When I go
Still, the culture of drag that has sprung
mean girl who gets her comeuppance? Who
on stage, I JUST
up in recent decades, even just the past few
would have thought that the girl who has a
years, fascinates Busch. A couple of weeks
rather small role in the movie turned out to be
DIAL UP THE
ago he was invited to participate in the first
Amy Adams? Busch says, referring to the now
BRIGHTNESS
International Austin Drag Festival, held in
five-time Oscar-nominated actress.
Austin,
Tex. They put me up at this Hampton
Of course, before it became a movie with a
AND TAKE
Inn airport hotel, and they had 45 rooms for
cult following, Psycho Beach Party was a play
DOWN THE
all these drag queens from all over the counwith a cult following, a 1987 Off-Broadway
try. It was very amusing calling up the front
production written and starring Busch in the
CONTRAST.
desk and saying, Could you please connect me
same role that Ambrose portrays in the film.
to Lady Bunnys room?
I used to always say that I didnt want to be a
But the festival also proved that Busch is different than the
woman, but I wanted to be an actress, Busch says. I just seem
typical drag professional. Every single person who was there in
to have a talent and an interest in playing female roles.
In fact, Busch has become best known as a writer of genre- drag, they all take like two hours to get made up. I cant imagine
parody plays with female protagonists and as an actor who what theyre doing! Cause I can get made up in 15 minutes. Im
plays his characters in drag. The clearest and probably best just the lady next door.
Lately, however, Buschs focus has been portraying a slightexample is 2003s hysterical Die Mommie Die!, in which Busch is
ly exaggerated version of himself through a cabaret rather
on screen for nearly every scene.
I have a bit of a crackpot theory, Busch says, when asked than as the lady next door in a play. In fact, roughly a year ago
what could have triggered this fascination with the feminine. Busch decided to take an indefinite break from playwriting.
In the past, when there really was no gay imagery in movies Particularly the last five years, every season I had a play, he
at all pre-1970s, lets say except for killers and villains, I says, adding, Some of them were a little half-baked, I think.
wonder whether it was easier for a certain kind of gay man to As such, Busch has decided to explore other pursuits. I
identify with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford more than with John wanted to see what joy I could derive from other forms of creWayne or Humphrey Bogart, stories with a strong but vulner- ativity. In addition to taking painting more seriously and also
able woman attracted to a man. I dont know, maybe thats a little slowly, slowly working on a memoir, Busch decided to really
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WAKEFIELD
delve into singing and performing

cabaret. Hell bring a show hes developed recounting some of his fascinating
personal anecdotes to Washington this
Monday, May 18, as part of the annual
gala for Theater J.
Im not the worlds greatest singer
if people are looking for big notes, they
should go elsewhere, Busch concedes.
Yet the cabaret is about 70 percent
music, 30 percent comedy, and audiences elsewhere have responded most
to the more touching standards that he
performs. The show includes a film noir
parody, giving the audience a 10-minute feeling of the style of my plays. He
will also play a sketch of a character that
inspired the lead in his 2000 play The Tale
of the Allergists Wife. Miriam Passman is
kind of a raging Jewish lady in New York
who is striving to be a cabaret performer
late in life. His first foray on Broadway,
Tale of the Allergists Wife earned three
Tony nominations, including Best Play.
Theater J will stage a production of it
next month.
And yes, Busch will perform the cabaret in drag. After all these years in costume, a little bit of masquerade seems to
allow me to be even more real. It gives me
a confidence and a swagger that I might
not have without the drag.... I think of

myself as kind of like an old-style television set. When I go on stage, I just dial
up the brightness and take down the contrast. But its basically all me.
Busch hasnt ruled out developing
another play. I have a very fertile imagination [so] its not unlikely that I might
come up with something, he says, adding with a laugh: But if I dont, I wont!
Nobody says I have to do it.
Its quite possible that Washington

might once again spur Busch in his future
creative pursuits in the same way the city
did 30 years ago. At that point, several
years out of college, Busch was floundering in his career in New York, and he
wasnt getting any encouragement for
his performance art pieces in which he
played a bunch of male and female characters, though not in drag.
On a whim, he took a trip to D.C.
to visit a friend, who was throwing a
party at his apartment. After a small,
impromptu performance there, the late
Bart Whiteman invited Busch to return
for a run at the Source Theatre Company.
The rapturous reviews that poured in
were just what Busch needed. It was just
the most incredible validation for me at a
very young age that I was not deranged,
that actually the faith that I had in myself
was justified. So Washington, D.C., played
a very big part in my career.
Charles Busch performs Monday, May 18,
at 8 p.m., at Washington, D.C.s Jewish
Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW.
Tickets are $175 for show and dessert
reception, or $275 also including a dinner
at 6:30 p.m. Call 202-518-9400 or visit
washingtondcjcc.org. l
gears
1960 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible
Milestone
As General Motors celebrates half
a billion sales, we take a brief
look at their history
by RHUARIDH MARR
GENERAL MOTORS
LOT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED IN A CENTUry. The moon has gone from a distant friend to a
potential stepping stone to Mars. Cinema evolved
from grayscale silence into digitized extravaganza. America developed from isolated independence to become
the worlds preeminent superpower. And a little company called
General Motors sold half a billion vehicles.
Yes, thats right. Five hundred million vehicles, sold over
106 years. Seventy-seven of those were spent as the worlds
largest automaker, a crown GM has only recently relinquished
to Toyota. The company employs 190,000 people, manufactures cars in over 170 locations, and sells them in 140 countries
around the world. There are no small numbers when it comes

to General Motors.
But how did GM get to where it is? How did a holding company started in 1908 become the worlds preeminent automaker?
Lets find out.
The General Motors Company began life in 1908. Its founder, William C. Durant, had made his fortune in horse-drawn
carriages and acquired Buick in 1904, turning it into one of
Americas most successful brands. In 1908, he established GM
as a conglomerate, which would control various sub-brands
and the manufacturing processes required to build their cars
indeed, his carriage firm, Durant-Dort, supplied many of the
components of that early era. By 1909, Durant had expanded
GM to include Cadillac which would introduce the worlds
first electric starter in 1912 and the first V8 in 1915 Oldsmobile,
Oakland (what we now know as Pontiac) and two companies
that would later evolve into GMC, GMs truck division.
After an $8 million deal to buy Ford was rejected by a bankers trust, Durant was forced out by the companys directors. He
responded by founding Chevrolet with Louis Chevrolet. The
brands success would lead to his return to GM in 1916, bringing
Chevrolet into the fold two years later. In 1920 he was removed
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again, this time permanently.

With the Roaring Twenties came rapid growth. GM relocated
from Flint, Michigan to Detroit, establishing the city as the home
of American automotive manufacturing. Its headquarters, now
known as Cadillac Place, would serve the company until 1996
and are a registered National Historic Landmark. GM bought
Britains Vauxhall and Germanys Opel, which would later be
combined into one brand, and is today sold as Buick in America.
Australias Holden would be acquired at the start of the next
decade. It was during this time that the Pontiac brand came to
be. Originally established as a subsidiary of Oakland, it outsold
the original and then superseded it.
GM also began to target its various brands at specific types
of consumers, deemed the ladder of success. Starting with
Chevrolet, then considered basic transportation, consumers
could upgrade to Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and then Buick. Cadillac
became, and still is, GMs luxury brand for affluent buyers. To
better allow customers to purchase their cars, GM established an
early form of consumer financing, beating Ford, which wouldnt
implement similar measures for another decade. By that point,
GM had already passed Ford in sales.
The Great Depression inevitably led to a decrease in sales.
Cadillac, as the brands luxury marque, saw sales decline between
1928 and 1933 by eighty-four percent. They rebounded, helped
by the removal of an archaic policy which discouraged selling
vehicles to African American consumers, and models such as
the Chevrolet Suburban (which currently holds the record as
the longest running nameplate in the world), but the arrival of
war would halt the companys growth again though it was
able to introduce the worlds first automatic gearbox in 1940.
World War II saw GM become a global leader in production for
wartime armaments, vehicles and aircraft. However, in Europe,
while Vauxhall was producing Churchill tanks for the Allies,
GMs German automaker, Opel, was nationalized by the Nazis
and switched to providing services to Hitlers war machine. Still,
there was a curious upside for GM after Allied bombings, possibly using its own aircraft, it was able to claim $33 million in war
reparations to rebuild facilities.
Growth postwar was massive. GM was briefly the largest corporation in America in terms of revenue as a percent of GDP. In
1955, it became the first American company to pay taxes in excess
of $1 billion. By the end of the 1950s, the strict lines between
brands had started to fade, as high-powered engines reserved for
luxury cars trickled down to the Pontiac and Chevrolet brands.
This in turn led to the consumer confusion that would plague GM
into the 00s as the various brands diversified, consumers were
given multiple similar options, such as the Chevrolet Impala,
which competed with both Oldsmobile and Buick.
It was the 60s that produced two classics of American motoring. When Ford released the Mustang in 1964 it enjoyed incredible sales and rapturous praise. GM was desperate for a slice of
the consumer pie, so released the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac
Firebird though it was Pontiacs GTO that is often credited
with kickstarting the muscle car craze. This was also the era
when GM began moving to platforms, from which a variety of
models could be produced, something which would be further
refined in the following decade. By 1964, GM had crossed its first
major landmark: 100 million vehicles sold.
The 70s brought a variety of developments: GMs crash test
dummies became the industry standard, it became the first automaker to offer airbags, and was also the first to offer the catalytic
converter an important step in helping to reduce the impact
that cars have on the environment. This was also, unfortunately,
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the time when GMs reputation for reliability woes began to

surface. After the Chevrolet Corvair was lambasted in the 60s
for being unsafe, the Chevrolet Vega was impacted with quality
issues due to labor unrest. Still, Oldsmobile bucked the trend,
with its sturdy Rocket V8 engine propelling it to be the third biggest automaker in America. However, when demand outstripped
supply and GM started fitting vehicles with Chevrolet V8s, GM
was slapped with a class action lawsuit by angry customers who
specifically wanted the Oldsmobile engine. At the start of the
1980s, GMs X-body platform led to the X-Cars debacle, with
many models built on the platform suffering numerous reliability issues. Still, even with quality seemingly dropping, GM managed to reach 200 million sales by 1978.
The 1980s were better. While GM struggled during the
recession, profits rebounded. It streamlined its products and
introduced the Saturn brand for younger consumers, while
SUVs, such as the Chevrolet Suburban and GMCs Suburban
(later rebadged Yukon XL), faced increasing demand. GM also
formed joint ventures with two Japanese rivals one of whom,
Toyota, would eventually supplant the firm as the worlds largest
automaker.
GM celebrated the start of the 90s with another milestone:
300 million vehicles sold. The early 90s recession hit hard, but
it was afterwards that Americas obsession with SUVs and trucks
began to take hold. Chevrolet and GMC introduced the Tahoe
and Yukon, respectively, in the late 90s, to massive success, with
sales increasing yearly until the early 00s, alongside their larger
SUV siblings and GMs truck division.
This century has been less kind to GM. While it hit 400 million vehicles sold in 2004, increasing gas prices forced Americans
out of SUVs and into smaller vehicles. GM faced increased competition from foreign automakers, such as Volkswagen, Honda
and Toyota, who were producing more efficient, more capable,
higher quality vehicles than GM or Ford and Chrysler. The
perceived quality of vehicles, or lack thereof, led to American
cars becoming a running joke in other nations, and the rise of the
German trio of Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz forced GM out
of the luxury market, as budget automakers squeezed it at the
lower end. GM was shedding money, to the tune of a $2 billion
operating loss in 2008 and a share price that dropped 90 percent
in 2009. It all ended in the infamous Chapter 11 bankruptcy during the height of the global financial crisis, with the government
bailing the automaker out and forcing it to restructure.
Since then, GM has remarkably rebounded. It shed several brands, including Pontiac and Saturn, and a manufacturing
venture from 1997 in China has led to that nation becoming
GMs largest market. Cadillac has finally returned to top form,
legitimately competing with its German and Japanese rivals as
a luxury brand. Many of Chevrolets products are considered
among the best in their class, and they introduced the worlds
first extended range EV in 2011 with the Volt. Buick has stabilized, helped by high quality models from Vauxhall and Opel.
GMC has remained resilient, long reigning as one of GMs most
profitable brands.
Even the ignition switch crisis, which has now led to over
100 deaths, hasnt dampened sales for GM. It returned to profitability a year after filing for bankruptcy, and has since gone on
to reach that incredible milestone 500 million vehicles sold. It
may have taken a century, it may have included its fair share of
bumps in the road, but no other automaker has yet come close.
General Motors is an American institution, and celebrating half a
billion consumers purchasing its vehicles is just another incredible milestone in the companys rich history. l
opera
The Shoe Fits

WNOs Cinderella is joyous,
humorous and eminently
accessible for opera novices
by KATE WINGFIELD
SCOTT SUCHMAN
ITTY, WONDERFUL AND AS UTTERLY

charming as a fairy tale opera should be,
WNOs Cinderella (HHHHH) is everything
last seasons Magic Flute wasnt. Why?
Because Flute was dragged into a crassly accessible now, whereas Cinderella stands firmly and unapologetically in her own
uncompromising then.
This is true despite the modernist visuals, a contrast between
brightly colorful Seussian costumes and the greys of a minimalist
set, because what remains perfectly and wonderfully untouched
are the operas sensibilities. It is as quaint, silly and delightfully

romantic as a tiny hat on top of an enormous 18th century ladies
wig just as it should be.
And, left unadulterated, this production is an ideal opera
for the uninitiated. Yes, some will balk at the absurdities, others may yawn at the harpsichord, and a few will be flummoxed
by Rossinis vocal acrobatics, but far more will discover that
opera can be enthrallingly entertaining. Not just because the
Cinderella story is familiar and accessible (though that certainly
helps), but because this production tells a clear and compelling story with such a joyous mood and irreverent humor that
it seems completely natural that it is set to a classical score and
sung with classical voices. It is a gently-offered hand into the
world of opera with a voice that says This is who I am. If you
can accept me, there is so much more to know and love!
At the heart of this opera is of course the romance between
the prince, Don Ramiro, who discovers and falls for the servant
girl Angelina. Though there is no fairy godmother or glass slipper, there are matching bangles and the same happy realization
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terious woman at the ball because she is Angelina. What works

so well here is Director Joan Fonts cultivation of a compelling
- and often amusing romantic tension; whether its the choreography of their first meeting or the moment when the bangles
are re-united. He also ensures that his actors are free to give
these characters personality, to breathe life into our stock ideas
of Cinderella and Prince Charming.
The very picture of a far more self-assured and willful
Angelina, Isabel Leonard looks like a 1960s Italian film star in
mufti. With her rich and dusky mezzo-soprano, Leonard gives
her young woman a gravitas and intensity that keeps her from
ever being too much the sugary heroine. When Ramiro at last
tells her come rule with me, it is easy to see the queen she
will be.
Just as importantly, she makes for a good match with
Ramiro, as played by Maxim Mironov. Exuding intelligence,

humor and charm, yet easily reverting to the casual stateliness
of a man born to lead, Mironov delivers a Ramiro who clearly
and logically would desire this kind of Angelina. The fact that
he sings the prince with a gorgeous ringing buoyancy couldnt
fit his persona better.
In apt complement to the tone of the romance here is the
productions approach to comedy. Walking a clever line between
traditional buffo humor and something rather more rambunctious, Paolo Bordogna offers plenty of laughs and then sings
with an expansive and pleasing tone. Upping the humor ante is a
troupe of endearing mice who take quiet interest in the goingson in between comically irreverent hijinks, some which almost
steal the show.
Rounding out the cast is Simone Alberghini as Dandini,
Ramiros trusted valet. A confident presence, Alberghini offers
good chemistry with Mironov and brings vibrant energy to much
of the action Dandini delivers. Alberghini is a tad heavy-handed
in his Rossini but he expresses with an attractive power. As
the two evil step-sisters, Jacqueline Echols (as Clorinda) and
Deborah Nansteel (as Tisbe) sing with rich sweetness and precision and have fun with the sisters antics. As Holy messenger
Alidoro (in place of a fairy godmother), Shenyang makes for an
impressive figure and sings with resonant authority.
Thus, the characters are lively, the voices lovely, the spirit
fun, and all in flow with Rossinis melodic and beautifully paced
score. If you are ready to tap into something as entertaining as it
is authentic, this is the glass slipper to try.
Cinderella runs to May 21. Kennedy Center Opera House. Tickets
are $25 to $300. Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-center.org. l
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games
Track Day
Project CARS is an unashamedly
punishing racing game, but its all
the more rewarding as a result
by RHUARIDH MARR
F, LIKE ME, YOU SPENT YOUR CHILDHOOD DEVOTing hours to Gran Turismo, then Project CARS (HHHHH)
is definitely the game for you. That slavish devotion to
simulation, to putting you in the drivers seat of a myriad of
powerful vehicles, to throwing you onto a track and demanding
your best for every last inch of road its all here.
Standing in stark contrast to its peers, DriveClub and Forza,
Project CARS has zero time for handholding. Theres no tutorial
missions here, no easy rewind features to correct any mistakes,
no concessions to those who prefer an arcade style of car control.
Starting it up for the first time, youll be thrown into a race weekend pick the car, get in, drive. The rest is up to you.
Project CARS, from British developer Slightly Mad Studios,
has a more personal connection to its players than most. It
started as a concept, which was funded and beta-tested by PC
gamers, before being ported to console. Its central conceit, its
physics engine, the myriad features on offer, all are a result of
extensive testing and feedback with real players. As a result,
Project CARS (or, Community Assisted Racing Simulator), is a

beautifully honed motorsport simulator.
Its also beautifully punishing for new players. My first few
races were spent getting to grips with a control system that
demands skill. It has been set up with steering wheels in mind,
supporting a bevy of them on PC and several on console, but
with a humble controller its still eminently precise. Stepping
into the cockpit of a supercar, youll have to balance throttle,
brake force, steering inputs. You need to remain cognizant of
the laws of physics as you slice from one corner to the next, or
attempt to bury the throttle coming out of a tight bend. All too
often I would find myself racing as I would in any other game,
only for whatever I was controlling to be send into the nearest
wall or another car.
But, eventually, it clicks. Feathering the gas pedal through
tight corners, using light turns on the wheel, keeping the brakes
in check, being aware of tire degradation, fuel load, damage to
the bodywork and vital components. Racing in Project CARS
demands your full attention if you want to secure that podium
finish, or score the fastest lap. For casual gamers, it can be offputting, but for someone who loves cars, its like crack cocaine
in digitized form.
It helps that Project CARS doesnt lock away its content,
demanding that you grind your way to better cars by earning meaningless money or completing arduous challenges. Its career mode
is just that: a career. Youll set up your profile and choose a team
to sign to, which youll then race with for an entire season (one
in-game year). Youre presented with several tiers of racing, from
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humble go-karts to full-blooded LMP racers or standard road cars.

Pick a motorsport, sign up to a team, and youre good to go.
Though I didnt have to, I started at the bottom with gokarting, intending to work my way up through the various racing tiers as my skills progressed. Oh, how naive I was. Far from
being simple, go-karts in Project CARS require deft hands, with
aggression on the gas pedal rewarding you with a beautifully
rendered, smoke-filled spin off the track. As the games excellent
AI they wont adhere rigidly to the same line, but also wont
try to kamikaze into you during busy corners sailed past me, I
was forced to rethink my strategy of attack. Several races later, I
was leading the field.
Project CARS rewards dedication. Over the course of each
race, which can involve a practice session, qualifying session and
then the race itself (or, for go-karts, two races), youll earn points
for hitting the fastest laps and for achieving podium finishes.
Those points will lead to championships wins. Championship
wins and proficient driving will unlock additional events invitation-only race days that can be entered every calendar year.
Winning will also get you noticed by other teams, who will try to
recruit you for the next season, either to secure victory in their
car, or to jump up to another tier of racing. Of course, thanks to
its open structure, if at any point you dont like the motorsport
youre competing in, you can end the contract and sign up for
another one. Its a level of choice that feels utterly joyous after
years of racing games imposing artificial restrictions on whats
initially available.
In terms of whats actually available, though, some could be
disappointed. The game currently features sixty cars, with a further fourteen either offered as preorder bonuses or coming soon
as DLC. That pales in comparison to Forza Horizons 2, which
has more than 200 vehicles, or Gran Turismo 6, which contains
over one thousand, but theres an argument to be made here for
quality over quantity. Plus, theres no shortage of courses to
throw the included vehicles around, with over 30 locations and
110 track layouts on offer, covering real locations such as Laguna
Seca and the Nrburgrings Nordschleife and fictional ones such
as Azure Coast, inspired by Cte dAzur in France.
It also helps that the game is impeccably modelled. On PS4
and Xbox One its running at 60fps, though resolution is dropped
down from 1080p to 900p on the latter. Car models are gorgeously detailed, with accurate interiors and beautifully shiny
exteriors. The games damage model is extensive, with body
parts crumpling and falling off, tires showing wear, and components getting damaged. Environments are occasionally a little
bland, but the courses themselves are wonderfully rendered.
In addition, the game features a fully customizable weather
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system, including fog, thunderstorms and glorious sunshine,

as well as a dynamic day/night system. Starting a race in pouring rain which realistically impacts the way cars handle and
respond, and dramatically reduces visibility and ending it with
sunlight peeking through the clouds will leave you in no doubt
that Project CARS is a beautiful game. On console, it still cant
compare to PS4 exclusive DriveClub, but on PC it blows most
other games out of the water with astounding realism.
That heady attention to detail is backed by a wonderful
soundtrack. Im not talking about music, which is a curiously
enjoyable mix of techno and opera and relegated to menus.
No, races themselves are scored only by the roaring of engines,
screeching of tires, squealing of brakes and crunching of body
parts as racers jostle for position. Its mechanically melodious,
a song to every petrolheads ear. Slightly Mad Studios has captured audio brilliantly, with powerful V8s snarling and growling
on gear changes, Formula A cars screaming as they ramp up the
revs, and go-karts buzzing merrily as the gas pedal is pressed. I
cant remember the last time a racing game sounded this good
with a solid set of headphones and the right camera view (there
are many, including a helmet view complete with visor), youll
feel as if youre sitting in the car itself.
And, really, thats what Project CARS does so well. Whether
against AI opponents or real racers in the games simple yet
effective online multiplayer, Project CARS puts you squarely in
the drivers seat of a racing car, hands you the keys, and tells you
to enjoy yourself. Piloting Mercedes SLS AMG round a track,
with its viciously sonorous V8 rumbling and barking through my
headphones, I felt like I was there, navigating from apex to apex.
Coupled with a steering wheel and an Oculus Rift VR headset
(the game will also support Sonys Morpheus headset when that
launches), Project CARS could be one of the closest experiences
to actually being in a car.
No, its not for casual racers, and yes, its brutally unforgiving especially with driver aids turned off and the AI turned up
to maximum difficulty but for the dedicated racers out there,
its one of the best motorsport simulators available. Finding the
fastest line around every course, trimming those seconds from
your lap times, picking the right corners to execute an overtaking maneuver thats where Project CARS excels. If youre
looking for a drop-in and drop-out racer, this isnt it. If youre
looking for something to consume your free time and generate
that automotive tingle in the pit of your stomach, I cant recommend it enough.
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Hour Prices All Night Long
JR.S
All You Can Drink for $15,
5-8pm $3 Rail Vodka
Highballs, $2 JR.s drafts,
8pm-close Throwback
Thursday featuring rock/pop
retro hits
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Beat The Clock Happy Hour
$2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm),
$4 (7-8pm) Buckets of
Beer $15 Drag Bingo
NUMBER NINE
drink, 5-9pm No Cover
TOWN PATIO
Open 5pm No Cover
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All male, nude dancers
Shirtless Thursday DJ
Tim-e in Secrets 9pm
Cover 21+
FRI., 05.15.15
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Open at 5pm Happy Hour:
2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm
Friday Night Videos with
resident DJ Shea Van Horn
VJ Expanded craft beer
selection No cover
ANNIES
4@4 Happy Hour, 4-7pm
Martinis Upstairs open
5-11pm
COBALT/30 DEGREES
All You Can Drink Happy
Hour $15 Rail &
Domestic, $21 Call &
Imports, 6-9pm Guys
Night Out Free Rail
Vodka, 11pm-Midnight, $6
Belvedere Vodka Drinks
all night Watch your
favorite music videos with
DJ MadScience in the
lounge DJ Keenan Orr
on the dancefloor $10
cover 10pm-1am, $5 after
1am 21+
DC9
1940 9th St. NW
Happy Hour, 4-8pm
dcnine.com
DC BEAR CRUE
@Town Bear Happy
Hour, 6-11pm $3 Rail,
$3 Draft, $3 Bud Bottles
Free Pizza, 7pm Hosted
by Charger Stone No
cover before 9:30pm 21+
DC EAGLE
Bear Nonsense Happy
Hour, 6-10pm Happy
Hour Prices until 10pm
$1 Rail and Domestic Bottle
or Drafts until 10pm
Food Bar Menu served until
closing
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Dueling Drag Divas, 8pm
$5 Cover Karaoke after
the show
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour, 4-9pm $5
Smirnoff, all flavors, all
night long The Boys
of Hump, 9pm-2am
Featuring VJ Tre and Friday
Night Videos $5 Cover
1 Free Rail/Domestic Drink,
9-10pm Law Enforcement
Drink Happy Hour Prices All
Night Long
JR.S
$2 Skyy Highballs and $2
Drafts, 10pm-midnight
Happy Hour: 2-for-1,
4-9pm Retro Friday
$5 Coronas, $8 Vodka Red
Bulls, 9pm-close
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
DJ Matt Bailer Videos,
Dancing Beat The Clock
Happy Hour $2 (5-6pm),
$3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
NUMBER NINE
Open 5pm Happy Hour: 2
for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm
No Cover
PHASE 1
DC Gurly Show Presents
BOOB TUBE! at 9:30pm
$10 Cover
TOWN
Drag Show starts at
10:30pm Hosted by Lena
Lett and featuring Miss
Tatianna, Shi-QueetaLee, Epiphany B. Lee
and BaNaka DJ Wess
upstairs, BacK2bACk
downstairs Doors open
at 10pm Go-go boys after
11pm For those 21 and
over, $5 from 10-11pm and
$10 after 11pm For those
18-20, $12 all night 18+
TOWN PATIO
Open 5pm No Cover,
5-10pm, $5 from 10-11pm
and $10 after 11pm (enter
through Town)
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All male, nude dancers,
hosted by LaTroya Nicole
Ladies of Illusion with host
Kristina Kelly, 9pm DJ
Steve Henderson in Secrets
VJ Tre in Ziegfelds
Cover 21+
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SAT., 05.16.15
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink,
3-9pm $5 Absolut &
Titos, $3 Miller Lite after
9pm Expanded craft
beer selection No Cover
Music videos featuring
various DJs
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Drag Yourself to Brunch at
Level One, 11am-2pm and
2-4pm Featuring Kristina
Kelly and the Ladies of
Illusion Bottomless
Mimosas and Bloody Marys
Happy Hour: $3 Miller
Lite, $4 Rail, $5 Call, 4-9pm
Ladies of LURe present
BARE: Police Appreciation
Night Featuring DJ
Rosie, DJ Deedub and the
DystRucXion Dancers
Proceeds benefit the LGBT
Fallen Heroes Fund Beer
Pong and Flip-Cup Doors
open 10pm $7 before
midnight, $10 after 21+
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DC9
1940 9th St. NW
Happy Hour, 4-6pm
dcnine.com
DC EAGLE
DILF Night, 10pm-1am
International Mr. Leather
Send-Off for IML 2015
Ramien Pierre and Mr. DC
Eagle Dan Ronneberg
Club Colors Men in Gear
$2 Rail and Domestic or $2
off on call Bootblack
Theatrical Toy Food Bar
Menu served until closing
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Diner-style Breakfast
Buffet, 10am-3pm Crazy
Hour, 4-7pm Freddies
Follies Drag Show, hosted
by Ms. Destiny B. Childs,
8-10pm Karaoke, 10pmclose
GREEN LANTERN
Bacardi, all flavors, all night
long 495 Bears Presents
Bears Can Dance 9pm-close
No Cover
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JR.S
$4 Coors, $5 Vodka highballs, $7 Vodka Red Bulls
NELLIES
Guest DJs Zing Zang
Bloody Marys, Nellie Beer,
House Rail Drinks and
Mimosas, $4, 11am-5pm
Buckets of Beer, $15
NUMBER NINE
TOWN
DC Rawhides host Town
& Country: Two-Step, Line
Dancing, Waltz and West
Coast Swing, $5 Cover to
stay all night Doors open
6:45pm, Lessons 7-8pm,
Open dance 8-10:30pm
Funkytown 70s/80s/90s
Party, 10pm-close Drag
Show starts at 10:30pm
Hosted by Lena Lett and
featuring Miss Tatianna,
Shi-Queeta-Lee, Epiphany
B. Lee and BaNaka
Music and video by DJ
Wess downstairs Cover
$10 from 10-11pm, $12
after 11pm 21+
TOWN PATIO
Open 2pm No Cover,
2-10pm, Cover $10 from
10-11pm, $12 after 11pm
(enter through Town)
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Men of Secrets, 9pm
Guest dancers Ladies
of Illusion with host Ella
Fitzgerald, 9pm DJ Steve
Henderson in Secrets
DJ Don T. in Ziegfelds
Doors 8pm Cover 21+
SUN., 05.17.15
9 1/2
TVs showing movies,
Cover
COBALT/30 DEGREES
$4 Stoli, Stoli flavors
and Miller Lite all day
Homowood Karaoke, 10pmclose No Cover, 21+
DC9
1940 9th St. NW
Happy Hour, 2-6pm
dcnine.com
DC EAGLE
Open at 4pm All Day
Drink Special $1
Domestic Draft Beer
NELLIES
Drag Brunch, hosted by
Shi-Queeta-Lee, 11am-3pm
$20 Brunch Buffet
House Rail Drinks, Zing
Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie
Beer and Mimosas, $4,
11am-close Buckets of
Beer, $15
FREDDIES BEACH BAR

Champagne Brunch Buffet,
10am-3pm Crazy Hour,
4-7pm DC Gurly Show,
9-11pm No Cover
Karaoke, 10pm-1am
NUMBER NINE
Pop Goes the World with
Wes Della Volla at 9:30
pm Happy Hour: 2 for
1 on any drink, 3-9pm
No Cover
GREEN LANTERN
Smirnoff, all flavors, all
night Mamas Trailer
Park Karaoke, 9:30pm-close
TOWN PATIO
Open 2pm No Cover
JR.S
Sunday Funday Liquid
Brunch Doors open at
1pm $2 Coors Lights &
$3 Skyy (all flavors), all day
and night
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Decades of Dance DJ
Tim-e in Secrets Doors
8pm Cover 21+
MON., 05.18.15
9 1/2
Multiple TVs showing
movies, shows, sports
Expanded craft beer selection No Cover
ANNIES
4@4 Happy Hour, 4-7pm
Martinis
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Happy Hour: $2 Rail, $3
Miller Lite, $5 Call, 4-9pm
RuPauls Drag Race
Viewing and Drag Show
hosted by Kristina Kelly
Doors open at 10pm, show
starts at 11pm $3 Skyy
Cocktails, $8 Skyy and Red
Bull No Cover, 18+
DC9
1940 9th St. NW
Happy Hour, 5-8pm
dcnine.com
FREDDIES
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 8pm
TUES., 05.19.15
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour All Night Long,
4pm-close Michaels
Open Mic Night Karaoke,
9:30pm-close
9 1/2
Multiple TVs showing
movies, shows, sports
Expanded craft beer selection No Cover
JR.S
Happy Hour: 2-for-1, 4-9pm
Showtunes Songs &
Singalongs, 9pm-close
DJ Jamez $3 Draft Pints,
8pm-midnight
ANNIES
Stella Artois, $4 House
Wines, $4 Stolichnaya
Cocktails, $4 Manhattans
and Vodka Martinis
NELLIES SPORTS BAR

$2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm),
Beer $15 Poker Texas
Holdem, 8pm Dart
Boards
COBALT/30 DEGREES
SIN Industry Night
Half-price Cocktails, 10pmclose
NUMBER NINE
No Cover
TOWN PATIO
Open 5pm No Cover
DC9
1940 9th St. NW
Happy Hour, 5-8pm
dcnine.com
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 8pm
METROWEEKLY.COM
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour All Night Long,
4pm-close
JR.S
Birdie La Cage Show,
10:30pm Underground
(Indie Pop/Alt/Brit Rock),
9pm-close DJ Wes
Della Volla 2-for-1, 5pmmidnight
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
$2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm),
Beer $15 Karaoke and
Drag Bingo
NUMBER NINE
No Cover Safe Word: A
Gay Spelling Bee, 8-11pm
Prizes to top three
spellers After 9pm, $3
Absolut, Bulleit & Stella
TOWN PATIO
Open 5pm No Cover
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WED., 05.20.15
9 1/2
TVs showing movies,
Cover
ANNIES
Stella Artois, $4 House
Wines, $4 Stolichnaya
Cocktails, $4 Manhattans
and Vodka Martinis
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Wednesday Night
Karaoke downstairs, 10pm
Hosted by Miss Sasha
Adams $4 Stoli and Stoli
Flavors and Miller Lite
No Cover 21+
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DC9
1940 9th St. NW
Happy Hour, 5-8pm
dcnine.com
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm $6
Burgers Drag Bingo
Night, hosted by Ms.
Regina Jozet Adams
Bingo prizes Karaoke,
10pm-1am
GREEN LANTERN
Drafts all night long Boys
of HUMP upstairs, 9pm
JR.S
Trivia with MC Jay Ray,
8pm The Queen Amateur
Drag Competition, hosted
by BaNaka, 10-11pm, with
a $200 prize Buy 1, Get
1 Free, 4-9pm $2 JRs
Drafts & $4 Vodka ($2 with
College I.D./JRs Team
Shirt)
NELLIES SPORTS BAR

SmartAss Trivia Night, 8pm
and 9pm Prizes include
bar tabs and tickets to
shows at the 9:30 Club
$15 Buckets of Beer for
SmartAss Teams only
Bring a new team member
and each get a free $10
Dinner
NUMBER NINE
TOWN PATIO
Open 5pm No Cover
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Shirtless Night, 10-11pm,
12-12:30am Military
Night, no cover with
military ID DJ Don T. in
Secrets 9pm Cover
21+ l
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I think the Supreme Court ruling will become the law of the land and however much I agree or disagree with it,
I wouldnt support an amendment to reverse it.
Former HP CEO CARLY FIORINA, Republican contender for the 2016 presidency, speaking with conservative blog Caffeinated
Thoughts about an impending Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage. Fiorina apparently no longer supports the
Federal Marriage Amendment, which would seek to ban gay marriage, something she has previously advocated for.
My father lived to know about some of my success, but

he never came to see a single one of my shows.
SIR ELTON JOHN, writing in The Times about his experience with his father growing up. My father was sealed off from
my talent and I never knew why, he wrote. Was it homophobia? Was it fear?
You should now say you are not going to bake a cake for the gay wedding because
you fear Muslim backlash.
Conservative radio host RUSH LIMBAUGH, in a blog post on his self-titled website, telling Christian bakers who are asked to bake
a cake by a same-sex couples that they wont out of respect to, or fear of, Islam. You respect Islam or youre afraid of
Muslim backlash, he wrote. See how that flies. Its just an idea. Hope it works.
The rumor isnt true. Im not bisexual...

Im gay.
ALEC DONOVAN, one of the countrys top high school wrestlers, recounting an exchange he had with a recruiter who asked if
he was bisexual, OutSports reports. Donovan made the decision to reveal his sexuality as, Its better that everybody knows
anyway, so I dont end up on a team that doesnt want me for all of me.
When I was young,

I was the female that gay guys wanted
to try to become heterosexual with.
Actress JANE FONDA, speaking with PrideSource. A very famous actor whos gay and I will not name names asked me
to marry him, she continued, adding that, he wasnt the only one.
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treating people like people.

are able to be proud of who they are, she

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Olgin was pronounced dead at the scene.

Week Tonight with John Oliver scored a

Texas Lawmakers Push Anti-Marriage

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viduals and businesses to refuse to assist

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believe may end up being a decision in

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measure in Colorado was defeated and

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REEL AFFIRMATIONS screens Eat with Me at the

Human Rights Campaign headquarters. 7-11 p.m.

WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETYs mobile

organization, volunteers today for Food & Friends.

COP CAKES FOR A CAUSE 5, a fundraiser

Join METRO DC PFLAGS Cocktail Party. 6-9 p.m.

MISSION: ENGAGE, D.C.s inaugural LGBT

Community Pioneers Reception, at the Thurgood

THE DENIM COLLECTION and several local

community partners host Play It Safe, a discussion

TRANS* PEER SUPPORT GROUP meets at

Whitman-Walker Health. 6:30-8 p.m. 1701 14th St.

offers free HIV testing, 9-5 p.m., and HIV services

DC AQUATICS CLUB (DCAC) practice session at

MAY 14, 2015

DC LAMBDA SQUARES gay and lesbian square-

dancing group features mainstream through

HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker Health. At

in Gaithersburg, 414 East Diamond Ave., and in

METROHEALTH CENTER offers free, rapid HIV

SMYAL offers free HIV Testing, 3-5 p.m., by

Meeting, 6:30-7:30 p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave. NW.